‘Spiritual disciplines’ or ‘means of grace’?

Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries favors means of grace as a more genuinely Protestant term:

“You need to understand that these are largely artificial repainted ascetic practices of Roman Catholic monks and monkettes which greatly contributed to God bringing about the Protestant Reform ation in the first place. And yes, it was the Spirit of the Lord Who moved men like Martin Luther, who as a former monk had forgotten more about ascetic “disciplines” than mystic monk wannabes [Richard] Foster and [Dallas] Willard will ever know.”

He and others are alarmed by the interest some evangelicals have shown in contemplative spirituality, as he explains in a post that appeared yesterday (October 19), which also links to an article by Geoffrey Thomas entitled, “Searching the Scriptures“.