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يكتب ب [مرك] [فن] [ستينوك]: أكتوبر - تشرين الأوّل 24, 2004
يتلقّى [ميسّيو] [دي] [مووني] [إينفيلترتورس]. زوج ينبثق يبدأ يأتي إلى واحدة من نا منزل تجميع وهم يتلقّى يكون بعض مادّة خام غريبة. أتمّ واحدة من الزعيمات من أنّ مجموعة بعض بحث وأسّس خارجا أنّ الزوج قد كان في التوحيد كنيسة ل تقريبا 30 [يرس-ند] أنّ هم جزء من وزارة فريق في مينيابوليس جنوبيّة أنّ يكون يحاول أن يجنّد ناس إلى [مووني] مذهب. نحن قد كنّا "جمهور" ل [ا فو] أسابيع, وسابقا نحن يضطرّ بدأت يخيف من الذؤبان.
لقراءة بعيد. . .
- لا شيء أسّس
ربّما أحضرت هم يتلقّى يكون إلى أنت أن يسمع الحقيقة. أنّ ماذا نحن أسّسنا خارجا حوالي واحدة في مجموعتنا الذي تلقّى خلفيّة مورمونيّ. عندما أسّس نحن خارجا, نحن كنّا صغيرة "أغضب" أنّ هذا شخص من إعتقاد مشكوكة كان في غمرتنا. بعد ذلك, اكتشف نحن ببطء أنّ هو كان حقّا صحيحة يبحث بعض حقيقة ل ه لولب فوق حياة. نحن قلناه حول يسوع, بما أنّ نحن عرفناه, وهو يشعل فوق.
بعد بعض وقت, قالنا هو أنّ هو رأى شيء مختلفة في ه لأنّ نحن لم نجتنبه, ويجادل مع ه حول إعتقاد. بدلا من ذلك يتنازع مع ه ويساعد ه داخل ه ركن حيث هو مريحة [فلّ] إلى الخلف على ماذا هو عرف ([مورمونيسم]), نحن أحبّه ل الذي هو كان, ويقوله حول يسوع عرف نحن.
الناس يستجيبون إلى حقيقة في حالة حبّ, ويستطيع وجدت حرية من الدين أنّ يضعهم داخل عبودية. هم يمكن لا يأتي حوالي [ريغت-وي], [أر فن] ضمن وقتنا مع هم. But the seeds of love, properly planted, often grow and mature.
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Stay well!
Mark, I’d be careful about scarring them off without talking with them first. We had a woman in our church who was really into new age stuff and it freaked me out at first. She would say really bizarre things and people would just look at me to see what I’d say. I never validated her beliefs, but I never ridiculed them either. I used the opportunity to open her up to what she was really searching for. Over time, Christ won out. We’ve also had Jews, Muslims, atheists and Wiccans come to Ld. You want to be a missional church? Welcome to the mission field. This is what its all about. I see no reason to scare them away. Just don’t validate what they say.
I appreciate what you are saying. But they came specifically to recruit. And they came to house group meetings and tried to dominate the conversations. They are firmly entrenched in the moonie organization. These aren’t merely naive people who are a bit deceived. They are involved as deeply as you can get. In fact there is a picture on their website of them with Mr. Moon.
This was a situation where they were intentionally coming to recruit people into their organization, not merely trying to have dialogue. In such a situation, it seemed unwise to have them attending a house gathering. I am very much open to people with different beliefs coming to our gatherings. I would enjoy that very much. But it is another thing entirely when missionaries from a cult organization are specifically trying to recruit.
Wow!
I can beat that, though. Friends of mine took over a church somewhere and found out that the worship leader was a moonie!
I once heard Greg Boyd say that they had a witch coming to their church for two years and they didn’t even know it. She would come on Sundays and put curses on him as we was preaching. Eventually, after two years, she came to Christ. Interesting stuff.
A witch can attend Woodland Hills for two years and not get noticed because ANYBODY can attend a gathering of over 1,000 people and not get noticed. She can attend because it’s not a problem. She has no dialogue with the sermon, she doesn’t get to submit spells to be chanted during worship, etc. However, when your gathering consists of between 5-15 people, eating together in a house and participating in a dialogue meant to be centered around Christian teaching, for the benefit of the believers and to pique the interest of the non-believers, spending long periods of time every night listening to the beliefs of a post-Christian cult is neither productive nor acceptable.
Gee, Christ, what isn’t a post-Christian cult nowadays? ;o)
Oops - that’s meant to say “Chris” not “Christ.”