Thanks for those links.
All that contemplative prayer stuff sounds too much like transcendental meditation and yoga for my taste.
I’ve also been checking out the emergence church movement and find it rife with heresy. I’ve actually heard the teaching that we are God from acquaintances of mine. In addition to the name it and claim it theology, the prosperity gospel, the *ask whatever you will and you’ll have it* mentality, the *your words have power* and *you can speak things into existence* kind of stuff. The idea that all you have to do is say the positive things and they will become your reality.
A friend keeps telling me, (and I somewhat agree with him to an extent) that we are so willing to accept the negative and reluctant to accept the positive. But telling someone that you think you are coming down with a cold, doesn’t make it reality for you because of your words. It just means you are aware of the symptoms your body is displaying.
The Pentecostal movement is weird and poorly grounded in Scripture. there doctrines of theirs have little or no Scriptural support without taking verses out of context. They are too focused on the here and now and using God as a sugar daddy to make their lives comfortable and problem free.
They seem to forget the words of Jesus who says that in this world we WILL have tribulation, but to be of good cheer because HE has overcome the world.