Comments on: Missions

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:07:58 +0000

Traveling around the world to get people to pray a prayer is SO last century. Now you can get people saved just by having them click “Yes” on a webpage! Check out how effective it is!

http://greatcommission2020.com/

By: Reader Mo

Reader Mo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:08:54 +0000

most fundy “dinstinctives” are just silly, but their notion of salvation is truly disturbing.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:34:28 +0000

How many Baptist “doctors” does it take to save 368 people? Apparently 4 (at the 3:40 mark)

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:31:57 +0000

@Morgan

You hear that quite often when missionaries come to present their field. They say they are being called to such-and-such city “which has no gospel witness.” This really means that currently there’s no American missionary there from their alma mater.

By: Camille

Camille — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:58:10 +0000

Wow — thanks for the flashbacks, dudes! The state fair, a wordless book, a three-point prayer, and a wordless pencil and they are good to go!

::shudder:: God, please forgive me.

By: maria bergh

maria bergh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:25:13 +0000

The recitation of the children reminded me of similar PBS-typs programs where all the little kids just recite stuff…they are trained to do this. How sad, beyond sad.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:15:00 +0000

“I was in a Fundy church where they had an â€œinvitationâ€ every week in childrenâ€™s church. Kids went forward to â€œget savedâ€ multiple times â€“ some every week. Every time kids went forward, they were taken into a back room to â€œpray the sinners prayerâ€ and then they were given candy and toys from Oriental Trading.

Even now it makes my stomach rebel.”

Wow, you just brought back memories for me! I forgot that my church used to use candy and toys as “rewards” as well. I had completely forgotten about that, but as I read it, the pictures came flooding back of kids in the small room off to the side, praying the “sinner’s prayer” and picking out some candy afterwards as they “cried” with the adults. And…yeah, there were kids that went multiple weeks…

As for the video, It reminds me of many missionary presentations I saw over the years. Not quite as…blatant, but similar. It does seem to be all about numbers, without too much follow-up; especially with the kids.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:16:11 +0000

Sure they think that places without IFB churches have “never heard the Gospel”. That’s so arrogant it is mindboggling. That only they have the “true Gospel” and all those other Christian churches are hell-bound to damnation.

SFL: Steven L. Anderson, “Faithful Word Baptist Church”
quote:
“Our church spends several hours a week out soul-winning in the greater Phoenix area. We are in the process of eventually knocking every door in our county. However, many small towns, or “villages” as the Bible calls them, scattered across Arizona and across America have never had a soul-winning Baptist church in their town. How will these people hear the Gospel? Many people live and die in small towns with no Gospel-preaching church. How shall they hear without a preacher?”

By: Tom 2

Tom 2 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:17:55 +0000

We have had IFB missionaries at our church who, if their stories were true, would have converted the entire population of Mexico AND the Phillipenes. Such people will recieve their just reward.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:55:20 +0000

@Thomas, that’s because most fundies don’t see Latin America as a Xianized place. To them, unless you believe EXACTLY the same way they do on every single issue, then you’re not Xian (see the Witnessing to Presbys post from a while back).