Church Planters Attempt to Persuade Northeast's Non-Believers »
Posted By pacodecabra 1 month, 3 weeks ago in ReligionIt's hard to tell in the quiet of a color-splashed autumn morning, but Redeemer Fellowship Church is trying to set roots in a rough neighborhood. For churches, anyway.
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smithichie1 month, 3 weeks ago
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FTA~"The Rev. Wes Pastor, head of the NETS Institute for Church Planting in Williston, Vt., said New England's liberal mainline denominations, such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church, have been practicing a "different religion."
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The headline of the article claims these 'planters' are going after non-believers, but the above quote tells another story, they are in fact going after DIFFERENT believers. The article itself gives the figure of non-believers at 20% in the area.
Like I have always said, a Christian's most dangerous enemy isn't the Atheist, it's a fellow Christian. I mean, can you imagine a group of Atheists moving down South with the expressed purpose of converting folks to Atheism? Telling stories about the one in the mall who refused to take a card?
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toph19731 month, 3 weeks ago
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I got that from the article too. They may as well preach to other religions. They will be wasting their time preaching to athiests.
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Can you imagine athiests trying to convert people? That would be funny. I don't think that athiests need to though. Reason will convert people to atheism all by itself.
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pokydoke1 month, 3 weeks ago
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FTA: ""About once every hour, I give up. It's tough, man," said a half-joking Joe Souza, a Southern Baptist missionary working north of Boston. "It's like, you found a cure for cancer and you want to give it away and nobody wants it." There is a huge difference between having a cure for cancer and espousing a fantasy. I would venture to guess that the reason religion does so poorly here is because the population is generally better educated than our neighbors to the south. Evangelizing seems to work well when your missionary work involves ignorant and badly educated indigenous populations, not so well when they are well educated and well read.
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Dionys1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Evangelizing in the way these people do simply won't work.
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You want to know the best way to evangelize?
Live a Christ-like life and when people ask you how you got to be the way you are, or why you're so happy -- simply tell them and let their curiosity bring them close to the tradition they are already a part of, or the one they find.
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