Spiritual Formation: Medieval Mysticism Reawakened

Millions of Christians today are being drawn to the spiritual formation movement, hungry for a deeper, more intimate walk with God, but few realize that the movement's roots stretch back not to the Reformation but to medieval monasticism and mysticism. In this teaching, Pastor John Samson traces that history, exposes the dangerous shift from the objective gospel accomplished for us in Christ to the subjective search for God within our own interior experience, and shows why the Bible's sufficiency and the ordinary means of grace are not a pale substitute for something more exciting but the very means through which the risen Christ meets his people. If you have ever wondered why God doesn't seem to speak to you the way others claim he speaks to them, or if you have sensed that something is off in much of modern evangelical spirituality but couldn't quite name it, this teaching will give you both the diagnosis and the cure.