As much as I love our branch of the church, I also recognize that Protestantism has a shadow. Our revivalist focus on individuals making a decision to receive Christ has led to a two-tier Christianity—believers and disciples. We now have large numbers of “believers” who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior but who are not “disciples” following him. At the same time, our discipleship initiatives are top-heavy on renewing the mind through Scripture, but correspondingly weak in other critical components of a fully orbed, biblical spirituality—such as the practices of silence, stillness,
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