Vollmond
Geschrieben durch Mark Van Steenwyk: 24. Oktober 2004
Missio Dei hat Moonie Eindringlinge. Ein Paare begonnenes Kommen bis eine unserer Hausversammlungen und sie haben etwas ungerades Material herausgespritzt. Einer der Führer dieser Gruppe tat etwas Forschung und fand heraus, daß das Paar in der Vereinheitlichung-Kirche für fast 30 gewesen ist Jahr-und daß sie ein Teil einer Ministeriummannschaft in Südminneapolis sind, das versucht, Völker zum Moonie Kult einzuziehen. Wir sind „öffentlichkeit“ für einige Wochen gewesen, und bereits müssen wir weg, von den Wölfen zu erschrecken beginnen.
für weiteren Messwert. . .
- Keine fanden
Möglicherweise sind sie Ihnen geholt worden, die Wahrheit zu hören. Das ist, was wir ungefähr ein in unserer Gruppe herausfanden, die einen mormonischen Hintergrund hatte. Als wir herausfanden, waren wir „miffed“ ein kleines, das diese Person des fraglichen Glaubens in unserer Mitte war. Dann entdeckten wir langsam, daß sie wirklich gerecht war, etwas Wahrheit für sie suchend, schraubte herauf das Leben. Wir erklärten ihr über Jesus, wie wir ihn kannten, und sie oben beleuchtet.
Nach einiger Zeit erklärte sie uns, daß sie etwas sah, das in ihr unterschiedlich ist, weil wir sie nicht mieden, und mit ihr über Glauben argumentiert. Stattdessen kämpfend mit ihr und zurückziehend sie in ihr Ecke, wohin sie bequem zurück auf was sie wußte (mormonism), wir liebte sie fiel für, wem sie war, und ihr über den Jesus wußten uns erklärt.
Leute reagieren auf Wahrheit in der Liebe und können Freiheit von der Religion finden, die sie in Knechtschaft setzt. Sie können möglicherweise nicht oder sogar innerhalb unserer Zeit mit ihnen herum sofort kommen. But the seeds of love, properly planted, often grow and mature.
I like your blog, I will be back often!
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.”