Pleine lune
Écrit par Mark Van Steenwyk : 24 octobre 2004
Missio Dei a des envahisseurs de Moonie. Venir commencé par couples à un de nos rassemblements de maison et eux avaient jailli une certaine substance impaire. Un des chefs de ce groupe a fait de la recherche et a découvert que le couple a été dans l'église d'unification pour presque 30 année-et qu'ils font partie d'une équipe de ministère à Minneapolis du sud qui essaye de recruter des gens au culte de Moonie. Nous avons été « public » pendant quelques semaines, et déjà nous devons commencer à effrayer outre des loups.
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Peut-être ils t'ont été apportés entendre la vérité. Est ce ce qui nous avons découvert environ un dans notre groupe qui a eu un fond mormon. Quand nous avons découvert, nous étions de petit « fâchés » qui cette personne de croyance incertaine était à notre milieu. Puis, nous avons lentement découvert qu'elle était vraiment juste cherchant une certaine vérité pour elle a vissé vers le haut de la vie. Nous lui avons dit au sujet de Jésus, comme nous l'avons connu, et de elle allumée.
Après une certaine heure, elle nous a dit qu'elle a vu quelque chose de différent dans elle parce que nous ne l'avons pas évitée, et discute avec elle au sujet de la croyance. Au lieu de cela combattant avec son et soutenant il dans son coin où elle confortable est tombée en arrière sur ce qu'elle a su (mormonism), nous l'a aimée pour qui elle était, et dit lui au sujet de Jésus nous avons su.
Les gens répondent à la vérité dans l'amour, et peuvent trouver l'absence de la religion qui les place dans le servage. Ils peuvent ne pas relever autour tout de suite, ou même de notre temps avec eux. But the seeds of love, properly planted, often grow and mature.
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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.”