What if they came to your house...
I have a question. If someone like Sarah (Sarah's Imagination - recently removed from SimpleChurch - who was an Indigo Bhuddist Christian) came to your home meeting, at what point would you say... ahhhh.... I don't think this is the truth.. and define and limit the presentation of material that is quite clearly not founded on the Lordship of Jesus Christ? You want your house church to be evangelistic, it is a wonderful way to reach the lost, so how do you face the issue there? This is a real question, and needs a real answer.
In my experience, if someone is wanting to know the truth, we don't kick them out because of new age, or Bhuddist, or Hindu, or Moslem teaching. But if they only have an agenda to present their ideas to the destruction of the gospel of the kingdom of God in Christ Jesus, then their input must be limited, or excluded. How do you handle it? Carolyn
In my experience, if someone is wanting to know the truth, we don't kick them out because of new age, or Bhuddist, or Hindu, or Moslem teaching. But if they only have an agenda to present their ideas to the destruction of the gospel of the kingdom of God in Christ Jesus, then their input must be limited, or excluded. How do you handle it? Carolyn
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Comment by Nik P. on November 23, 2008 at 1:30pm -
I asked my husband what he thought about this. We agreed that someone who came in a spirit of presenting rather than learning would need a gospel in alignment with our best understanding of it. Otherwise, we would refer them out to teach their beliefs to their own group.
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Comment by Carolyn on November 30, 2008 at 8:33am -
Very descriptive, Kathryn! The uproar did feel a bit like that, didn't it... If we are to be the same person in Christ in church (simple or otherwise) as we are outside of church, which is to have a living testimony, one that walks in such a way that Christ is proclaimed without words as well as with words, then we must live the truth in love in every situation.
Now, it should be that we have simple church meetings, and sometimes leave the IC, because we are allowed to be that whole person and to have expression in the group in simple church. It kills our spiritual life to be just in a pew, and serving as an usher does not give our spirit man the expression of those things which God has put into him.
However, we have a tendency to associate, on forums or in house churches, only with those who agree with us. It does allow us to be proud of ourselves when we find others who agree. Sometimes on this forum the dialogs are a series of each patting others on the back for their same mind on an issue. I appreciate Chaplain Nik's comment on Separation of Church and State that admonishes us to hear each other without "challenges" to each other. There sometimes is a place for challenges, but doing so in a way that rejects that person as well as their beliefs won't allow them to see your perspective at all.
Now, the problem with an Indigo Christian Bhuddist, is that they need to be challenged, but they also need to be loved in a way that brings godly repentance. It would have been good to follow every comment Sarah made, and to ask questions that would tend to lead towards the truth of Christ Jesus alone. But, we would need to have Christ alive in us enough to have a demonstration of the power of God and the glory of God that shows he is alive and really raised from the dead. All his works are truth and they show him in ways that no amount of our words can do. Even Jesus told them to believe the Father was in him because of the works. May we do them, those things that are not humanly possible, and give voice to his name in truth.
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