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Написано Марк Фургоном Steenwyk: 24-ое октября 2004
Missio Dei имеет infiltrators Moonie. Приходить начатый парами до один из наших сходов дома и они spouting некоторое сверхсчетное вещество. Один из руководителей той группы провело исследование некоторое исследование и нашло вне что парой находилась в церков унификации для почти 30 год-и что они будет часть команды министерства в южном Minneapolis пытается завербовать людей к культу Moonie. Мы были «публикой» на немного неделей, и уже мы должны начать вспугнуть с волков.
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Возможно они были принесены к вам услышать правду. То мы считали вне около одно в нашей группе имела mormon предпосылку. Когда мы нашли вне, мы были маленьким «miffed» которое эта персона спорного верования была в нашем midst. После этого, мы медленно открыли что она была реально справедлива изыскивающ некоторую правду для ее привинчила вверх по жизни. Мы сказали ей о Иесус, по мере того как мы знали его, и ей освещенной вверх.
После некоторого времени, она сказала нам что она увидела что-то по-разному в ей потому что мы не избежали ее, и спорит с ей о веровании. Вместо воюющ с ее и подпирающ она в ее угол куда она удобная упала назад на она знала (mormonism), мы полюбила ее для она была, и после того как я сказаны ей о Иесус мы знали.
Люди отвечают к правде в влюбленности, и могут найти свободу от вероисповедания которое устанавливает их в кабалу. Они не могут прийти вокруг права - прочь, or even в пределах нашего времени с ими. 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.”