The Great Commission

[jimkenney12]

What about missionary organizations that use food, shelter, Or gifts to encourage or coerce people in poor communities to hear the word?

 

[Delightful Life]

Mendalla asked about the relevance of Jesus' command to proselytize to modern coercive measures. Jesus requires His missionaries to abruptly leave without attempted coercion when the community is not receptive and to shake the dust off their feet to symbolize their future indifference to that community and its needs. Only if they are welcoming are the missionaries to exercize "power over" their diseases:

"Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you,.. cure the sick who are there and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you." BUT Whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, "Even the dust of your streets that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this; the kingdom of God has come near."I tell you, on that Day, it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town (Luke 10:8-12)."
Note His word of judgment here. There is no thought of "Every spiritual path is equally valid."

Good points
Your last bit reminds me of how I have heard some scientists describe how reality seems to work?

I'll summarize: if it isn't impossible then it is permitted. Unfortunately most everything is impossible

 

[Luce NDs]

Does it take starvation and death fears to peddle the soul? Few accept the ultimate question with some composure ... may be due to religious conditioning under the direction of God' representative ... usually monarchist ... sometimes an outright oligarch ... trust none ... question all things even the unsafe ... it is biblical and also doubtful! Everything will decompose and diminish ... thus stinking thoughts ...

Business is industrious all about us ... selling god knows what ... we never ask! Human condition ... dense?

 

[Mystic]

What about missionary organizations that use food, shelter, Or gifts to encourage or coerce people in poor communities to hear the word?

Before I transferred to Princeton Seminary, I spent a year at Fuller Seminary, an evangelical seminary that doesn't believe in biblical inerrancy, but was still too conservative for my nagging doubts. Fuller also sponsored "A School of World Missions which offered a Master's degree. That school educated its missionaries on how to discover and respect the subtleties of various international cultures in a quest for maximum empathy. The quality of empathy is the key to eliminating the perception of manipulative love--gifts, benefits, bribes, etc. People from alien cultures can sense when they are accepted and loved jus the way they are. Medical clinics for malaria, various tropical diseases, and AIDS can powerfully express that love, if the patients are not subjected to coerced indoctrination as a condition of treatment. The less pushy, the more lasting the conversions. It is also important to study the indigenous religions of the region in search of common ground, beliefs, and practices that can be honored without compromising the Christian witness.

 

[Luce NDs]

Before I transferred to Princeton Seminary, I spent a year at Fuller Seminary, an evangelical seminary that doesn't believe in biblical inerrancy, but was still too conservative for my nagging doubts. Fuller also sponsored "A School of World Missions which offered a Master's degree. That school educated its missionaries on how to discover and respect the subtleties of various international cultures in a quest for maximum empathy. The quality of empathy is the key to eliminating the perception of manipulative love--gifts, benefits, bribes, etc. People from alien cultures can sense when they are accepted and loved jus the way they are. Medical clinics for malaria, various tropical diseases, and AIDS can powerfully express that love, if the patients are not subjected to coerced indoctrination as a condition of treatment. The less pushy, the more lasting the conversions. It is also important to study the indigenous religions of the region in search of common ground, beliefs, and practices that can be honored without compromising the Christian witness.

Are you just saying be decent and all will be good? You seem to radiate an irregularity to such mythology ...

 

[jimkenney12]

Before I transferred to Princeton Seminary, I spent a year at Fuller Seminary, an evangelical seminary that doesn't believe in biblical inerrancy, but was still too conservative for my nagging doubts. Fuller also sponsored "A School of World Missions which offered a Master's degree. That school educated its missionaries on how to discover and respect the subtleties of various international cultures in a quest for maximum empathy. The quality of empathy is the key to eliminating the perception of manipulative love--gifts, benefits, bribes, etc. People from alien cultures can sense when they are accepted and loved jus the way they are. Medical clinics for malaria, various tropical diseases, and AIDS can powerfully express that love, if the patients are not subjected to coerced indoctrination as a condition of treatment. The less pushy, the more lasting the conversions. It is also important to study the indigenous religions of the region in search of common ground, beliefs, and practices that can be honored without compromising the Christian witness.

What is your view of organizations like Samaritans Purse?