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Posted on 03/09/2009 4:41:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Many surprised by event billed as diversity presentation
Alveda King speaks about abortion Tuesday in Warriner
Some students at Alveda King's speech Tuesday night did not expect a strictly literal interpretation of the advertised "life affirming choices" speech.
The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King spoke out strongly against abortion at her "Can the Dream Survive?" presentation in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Some students were surprised to learn that was the topic of her lecture. Several of the about 650-person audience walked out.
"I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about increasing diversity.
Sponsored by The Student Budget Allocation Committee, The Office for Institutional Diversity and Students For Life, King presented a PowerPoint called "Can the Dream Survive If the Kids Are Dead?"
"That whole adding in 'can the dream survive if the kids were dead' was an aspect that I wasn't expecting," Turner said. "It kind of caught me off guard."
Speaking about abortion, King linked the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to her views on abortion.
She spoke briefly of her father, A.D. King, and her uncle, Martin Luther King Jr., who fought to end segregation in the early 1950s, before segueing into her own family's experience with abortion.
A mother of several children, King admitted she had two abortions herself, but that she was tricked into the procedures. The doctor who performed her first abortion did not tell her that she was pregnant.
"I was pregnant and he didn't tell me. It was illegal. It was not 1973. Roe v. Wade had not passed," she said. "Really, I was pregnant (and) he didn't tell me."
The situation was similar for her second abortion.
"We wanted to bring a speaker who would be able to talk about things that aren't talked about a lot. To bring some issues that we don't hear a lot," said Students For Life president and Muskegon senior Sean Nolan.
"I think (the) mark of success for our event is that a fair number of people got up and left during her talk," he said. "I think it's good that we probably annoyed people, irritated people,"
Turner, who stayed throughout the entire presentation, said he thought the lecture's content was questionable, but enjoyable to watch.
"I felt some of the information could have been a little skewed, but all in all it was good, it was entertaining."
>"I felt some of the information could have been a little skewed
Things not conforming to leftist views are - skewed...
Well Detrone, it was about increasing diversity--you should have stayed and paid attention.
""I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about increasing diversity."
Don't kill your babies, fool, that will 'increase diversity'!
Way to see someone keeping the fight up at Mt Pleasant.
In other words, he thought he was going to hear about ways to stick it to the Man legally and cop a high-price job where he didn't have to do any work but just show up once't in awhile--sort of like Obama's law firm job in Chi-Town.
No wonder he was disappointed. Apparently, "life" meant "life" and not "the life."
Dumb chickenturd.
"I felt some of the information could have been a little skewed, but all in all it was good, it was entertaining."
Entertaining? Entertaining? A speech on abortion is entertaining. Oh my...
i was thinking about naming my child, "detrone," then i came to my senses. :)
life-affirming.... but they were aghast it would be pro-life?
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What better way to increase diversity then by not slaughtering millions of black babies before they are born?
I guess they must have lost sight that the Kings are REPUBLICANS, huh?
I fell in love with Dr. Alveda king when I first read about the great work she is doing to save the lives of babies and help the black community remember their Republican roots.
God Bless you, Dr. King and Semper FI!
My thought too. I wonder if Mr. Turner knows the difference between being a 'father' and being a 'baby daddy'?
I guess they only want choices that affirm their own lives...
Selfishness — a sign of the times...
God forbid they hear something they don't agree with.
Think more, feel less, Detrone. You've been misled your entire life. In Margaret Sanger's perfect world, you don't exist. That's what abortion is all about. It's what it's always been about.
The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King spoke out strongly against abortion at her "Can the Dream Survive?" presentation in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Some students were surprised to learn that was the topic of her lecture. Several of the about 650-person audience walked out. "I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about increasing diversity. Sponsored by The Student Budget Allocation Committee, The Office for Institutional Diversity and Students For Life, King presented a PowerPoint called "Can the Dream Survive If the Kids Are Dead?" "That whole adding in 'can the dream survive if the kids were dead' was an aspect that I wasn't expecting," Turner said. "It kind of caught me off guard." Speaking about abortion, King linked the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to her views on abortion.
The woman is lying. She wants us to believe that some doctor never told her she was pregnant but then performed an abortion - twice!!
Next she'll claim she didn't know where babies came from.
wooo-hooo! GO ALVEDA!
I went on the priests for life site and found her testimony. She went to the doctor after getting pregnant again soon after having her first child. Apparently she was on the table and was told only "you don't need another baby" and he proceeded to do the D & C without giving her a chance to digest what he just said. As for the second abortion, the author of the article is inaccurate when they say that it was similar to the first one. She admitted that she had the abortion due to her personality change after the first one. She was a divorcee and an avid pro choicer.
Be very cautious when reading these articles because they tend to be skewed to make people look bad.
As for her first abortion, she was probably young and stupid and just basically would not speak up for herself when it came to the doctor. We all tend to give doctor's too much pull in our lives, just imagine being a young naive person on top of that.
It was.
If you abort all your kids you are not going to be around a 100 years. And the world will be less diverse.
I take it they no longer teach logic in Flint.
So how many of 650 kids walked out. Several?
And that drives the headline, not the content of the speech.
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Sorry but I don't believe her.
You are not getting the news that you are pregnant while you are in the OR lying flat on your back and instantly the doctor is scrubbed and performing the abortion. When you get a D & C you have preparation for it, you sign papers, you don't eat for a number of hours before the procedure.
Similiarly, anyone who is old enough to have one abortion, get married, get divorced and get pregnant again - they're old enough to know they're pregnant and they're getting another abortion.
She wants to blame some doctor and some mysterious personality change rather than take responsibility for her actions.
I can understand when someone is young and vulnerable. I can understand when someone feels she has no choice. I can't understand someone giving lectures on this topic and saying she had no responsibility for her actions.
p.s. Thank you for checking further about her story. You are correct to be cautious when reading these articles - actually reading any article in the main stream press.
Maybe she is having a hard time accepting full responsibility for the abortions, considering that it is a truly heinous act. I would have a hard time admitting that to myself as well. She is trying to make up for what she has done by making a difference and stopping other people from making the same choice.
She isn't lecturing people to talk down to them, she is trying to wake people up. She is tired of seeing innocent babies wiped out, and she just wants the genocide to stop. Is that so wrong? And again, if you want to learn more about her, research her yourself, don't rely on the information provided in this article alone.
More black than white babies are aborted. Margaret Sanger (Planned Parenthood) believed blacks were subhuman. Wake up! You stupid pro-abortion fools!
Alveda King is a national treasure.
Unfortunately, I can tell you from firsthand experience that you are wrong on everything above, with the exception of the paperwork--and years ago, I'm willing to bet that the paperwork was, at best, slipshod.
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I didn't realize she's be speaking in Flint, I'd love to have gone and seen her. This gets me, and apparently riled many other freepers:
"I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about increasing diversity.
Abortion is the number one killer of African Americans. How does it increase diversity, exactly?
From stories I have heard, back in the days when abortions were illegal it was a big deal to find the doctor and then get an appointment. It was all very hush-hush but the girl and the mother both knew exactly what the options were and what the goal might be. For her to claim she had no idea of that option is hard to believe.
Let's say she was blindsided by her first abortion, the second abortion was a surprise too?
She claims no responsibility for her choices and we're fine with that? I wonder why? Because she is black? MLK's niece?
Tell us again...what was the FULL TITLE of Darwin's magnum work?
What does that have to do with what I snipped from your comment? I made no comment whatsoever about absolving her of responsibility for her choices. None. I pointed out that what you stated, about what actually occurs in an abortion clinic (apart from murder) is wrong.
One other thing, not directed at you but just a statement in general: There have been a few assertions on this thread that abortion, in 1971 and before, was illegal. Not so. RvW in 1973 made abortion legal at the national level. Prior to that, abortion was legal in many areas of the country. I have seen nothing, no evidence so far, that shows that King's abortions were illegal. The legal standing, to me, does not at all alter the absolute immorality of abortion. It does, however, change the circumstances of the procurement. An abortionist performing illegal procedures would go above and beyond to make certain that the woman knew what was going on--in fact, I can't for a second believe that such a murder didn't take place at the direct and insistent request of the mother.
I can envision a doctor, "practicing medicine" in a setting in which abortion is legal, making life and death decisions without any help from the woman with her legs in the stirrups. That's exactly the kind of ego abortionists have. They don't discuss. They don't answer questions. I know of one personally who doesn't even allow for questions to be asked. They're monsters.
As for King, I am in no position to sit in judgment of her, but I will say this: Regardless of the circumstances surrounding her abortions, for many, many years now she has been a tireless advocate for the unborn. And yes, in that regard, it does make a difference that she's black. I can't think of one single black female pro-lifer that is as high-profile as she is. In fact, I can't think of one other slightly well known black female pro-lifer. Think of what that means to the black community.
Where the hell do people come up with these names..by dropping a pail full of Scrabble tiles out on the floor? "D-E-T-R-O-N-E...yeah, I like that one."
How many black babies have been killed since 1973?
Some or many who left may have been reminded about the wrongness of the abortion that they had or participated in.
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Wheelersburg went the distance in just three plays to make it 14-0. Eddie Miller took a quarterback sneak 56 yards and then found Tyler Claxon for the final 42 as Claxon continually broke tackle after tackle. Lewis' PAT made it 14-0 with 2:41 on the first-quarter clock.
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A couple of problems....warming changes weather patterns, which may leave previously fertile areas colder or in drought status while opening up other areas which weren't open to agriculture. This could be an even trade, but will disrupt societies and politics.
Second, and much more significant, it WILL leave world sea levels higher, possibly MUCH higher depending on how warm it gets. Several feet would flood all low-lying coastal areas leading, again, to massive social and political disruptions.
And there's the distant possibility that RUNAWAY warming could make the Earth uninhabitable, the 'Venus effect.'
Not sure this is something we want to gamble with...
I don't care about the "massive social and political disruptions" in the cesspools of the world. They do a good enough job of that as it is. Climate change won't change that fact much if any, it will just give them an excuse to blame us with the inherent inferiority of their social systems.
Flooding will not be that big a problem for us. Sure, the beaches might go under, but even if all the ice melted (not likely) we wouldn't have "Water World" because there's not enough water locked up in ice to do that. There's only enough to raise sea levels about 200 feet or so. Realistic projections are only saying climate change could raise sea levels 20 feet.
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Ramping up the noise and excitement is owner Rocco Mangel, who shows up randomly, hops on the bar top and walks along pouring tequila down the throats of eager customers. Mangel started as a busboy for Big City Tavern in 1997 and worked his way up, joining forces with BCT's parent company, Big Time Restaurant Group, to create Rocco's Tacos. The after-work crowd swarms the bar, which boasts 220 types of tequila including agave gems aged in oak casts. For my health-conscious friends, there was even a Skinny Señorita Margarita.
Ambience: The brickwork remains from the space's previous incarnation as Smith & Jones, but new, Mexican-made steel chandeliers with glimmering, star-shaped orange globes put Rocco's stamp on it. If you don't like a loud setting, Rocco's is not for you unless you arrive early. Before 7 on Sunday evening, it was a more relaxed scene with lots of families (there's a kids' menu with $5 items).
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What a great place. A gem in the north woods. Everything was as promised and then some. Peaceful and restful. Made our visit to our Granddaughter a joy, even though it was 25 below zero.
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My son is a student at SUNY Canton and I accidently found Marica's and Ronnie's site and all I can say is "I'm so grateful to google". I cannot begin to describe the overall beauty of the cottage and the river, but after meeting Marcia in person it describes who she is. I absolutely felt at home and cannot wait to return.
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We were immediately impressed the minute we drove up to the cottage and even more so when we went inside. Such a beautiful place!! Love the rustic decor and it is so cozy. The setting also cannot be beat as it is so peaceful to listen to the babbling river at all times. It was just what my husband needed for relaxing getaway. I have found many places on internet searches but this one by far has been the best and one we plan to return to. The whole area with fishing and waterfalls is also a huge plus for us!! Thank you for keeping this place an affordable getaway and for being such gracious hosts!!
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We are parents of a St. Lawrence college student, and had to drive to Canton, but our stay at the Guest House was well worth the little extra to get there. Immediately welcoming by white lights seen from the road, our cottage was quaint and private. The room was spacious with two double beds, a large deck and sunroom where we enjoyed our coffee and reading the paper. We would definitely recommend a weekend stay here.
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What an absolutely wonderful place to stay. The setting and guest home are so very peaceful and beautiful. The grounds are gorgeous, the hosts so very pleasant and accommodating. Everything possible has been thought of to make the stay perfect. We're just very sorry we weren't there several days longer. The place is really unusual in so many ways. A truly terrific way station in stunning surroundings.
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Loved it! The peaceful and restful setting was just what we needed to rejuvenate. Marcia and Ronnie have a wonderful place and they have thought of everything!
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We make a few visits to the North Country each year and have a few places where we normally stay. After an internet search, we decided to take a chance on The Guest House in January 2010. We are very glad we did. The private guest house accommodations were wonderful. Everything was new, clean, well appointed, and the fridge was well stocked for our two day visit and was included in the already very attractive price.
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St. John's will hold its 19th Annual President's Dinner on October 27. The University's premier fundraising event will be hosted by St. John's President Conrado "Bobby" Gempesaw, Ph.D. and his wife, Clavel Gempesaw, Ph.D.
News and Media
September 29, 2016
St. John's University President, Conrado "Bobby" Gempesaw, Ph.D., welcomes St. John's Queens Community Dialogue Group members at their first meeting to begin the new semester.
September 12, 2016
Conrado "Bobby" Gempesaw, Ph.D., St. John's President, and Lu Dan, Ph.D., President, Sanya University, Hainan, China, signed an MOU to officially begin an academic partnership that will benefit students from both higher education institutions.
September 2, 2016
As the Catholic Church prepares for her canonization to sainthood, it is worth noting Mother Teresa of Calcutta's visits to St. John's University.
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November 20, 2016
Join us on one of our beautiful campuses to get a taste of what life is like as a Johnny.
October 25, 2016
This new space will serve as the headquarters for McKee students' college readiness efforts and is a result of St. John's collaboration with the 30,000 Degrees College Readiness for a Stronger Staten Island initiative.
October 25, 2016
Celebrate this special evening with the recipients of the 2016 Spirit of Service Award at the historic and majestic Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
October 25, 2016
St. John's University Recognized in the 2015 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll has once again recognized St. John's University, "with distinction" for its continued commitment to community service.
October 24, 2016
On October 20-23, 2016, St. John's Law hosted its annual Peter James Johnson '49 National Civil Rights Trial Competition.


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Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin's Catwings books are beloved by younger readers. In the final book of the series, youngest catwings kitten Jane is fed up with life on the farm, and decides to strike out on her own. She soon finds that people will take advantage of her for their own gain, and tries to find someone who loves her not just because she is a cat with wings.
©1999 Ursula K. Le Guin; (P)2008 Recorded Books,LLC
toddler mom
"I Want More Catwings!!!"
I'm going to cut and paste a large portion of my reviews of Catwings here.
My 8 year-old daughter has a type of auditory processing disorder. She's multiple grade levels ahead in reading and reading comp, but when she takes in auditory information, her mind's a blank.
I bought this short and all the other catwings titles Audible has available because I love Ursula Le Guin's adult stories, and because these are so short, which may be a turn-off for some. But though they're short, they are rich in imagery, vocabulary, and interest. I didn't want anything infantile for my daughter, because she is such a strong reader.
Jane is the youngest, and perhaps most foolish of the catwings family. Her adventures and misadventures are largely as a result of her foolhardiness which makes for great conversations with a child about the virtues of common sense and wisdom.
Ursula Le Guin has a grandmotherly quality to her voice which is pleasant. It almost feels as though you're sitting at the feet of Grams while she spins a wonderful yarn.
My daughter was captivated. As were we all. As a sidenote, I found that her school performance was better after having listening to one of these stories. Now that we've blown thru these three stories in a week, I'm on a desperate hunt for a similar listening adventure.
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The question of how to relate the gospel to culture is a question about how to express the gospel message in genuinely cultural and authentic terms while at the same time maintaining the purity of the gospel. Speaking of gospel and culture in the African context, Kato says,
Culture as a way of life must be maintained. It is God's will that Africans, on accepting Christ as their Savior, become Christian Africans. Africans who become Christians should, therefore, remain Africans wherever their culture does not conflict with the Bible. It is the Bible that must judge the culture. Where a conflict results, the cultural element must give way."[1]
In relating the gospel to any culture, it is good for the preacher to have an objective, which in this case is to make the gospel relevant without compromising the purity of the gospel.
In the history of missions in West Africa, different approaches have been taken in relating the gospel to culture.[2] One approach believes that there is nothing redeemable in the culture and thus seeks to destroy the cultural practices of the people before establishing Christianity. This is what Pobee calls Tabula rasa. With this approach, Christians were more or less called out of society instead of being redeemed in society. One very different approach is what was called accommodation but now is called adaptation, localization, or indigenization. This view acknowledges that there is "a whole heritage in the non-Christian culture and consciously attempts to come to terms with that heritage" (Pobee 59). Here the missionary makes use of he belief system of the people and builds on what they already know. Yet, everything in the culture cannot be accepted en masse. Wisdom and discernment should be used. Some elements will have to be modified but others will be rejected. Again, Kato notes,
In the African evangelicals' effort to express Christianity in the context of the African, the Bible must remain the absolute source. The Bible is God's written Word addressed to Africans —and to all peoples—within their cultural background (Kato, 148).
This second approach has to do with couching the gospel message in genuinely African terms and categories, while at the same time not compromising the truth of the gospel. The point here is that while the gospel remains the same, its truth should be communicated in a culturally relevant manner.
Paying attention to how the gospel is communicated in a culture avoids the concept of working misunderstanding where "a missionary preaches the gospel in very foreign terms and the natives appear to receive it. That is, they may attend church services, obey church regulations, and so on, without any real understanding of what is going on" (Pobee, 59).
The importance of making the gospel relevant in a culture cannot be overstated. Once the gospel is stated in culturally meaningful ways, the people will embrace and own it and no longer see it as a foreign concept. They will embrace Jesus as Savior and Lord of their lives. Bediako writes of this point for Africans;
Once we discover that there is no valid alternative to Jesus Christ, the question is no longer: why should we relate to Jesus of Nazareth who does not belong to our clan, family, tribe and nation? But, how may we understand more fully this Jesus Christ who relates to us most meaningfully and most profoundly in our clan, family, tribe and nation?[3]
It is therefore the duty of the missionary or anyone preaching the gospel in another culture to be able to make the gospel message culturally relevant. How should this be done? While one finds many articles and books on methods of contextualization, I do believe that the preacher needs to be one who knows the gospel message well, knows the cultural context of his ministry, and prays for wisdom to make the message clear without losing an iota of it. I commend Paul's principle on how to do this as seen in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.
19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. 23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it (1 Corinthians 9:19-23).
This passage shows Paul's pattern of ministry to people of different cultures, Jews and Gentiles. Paul made himself a servant (slave) to all with the objective of winning more to Christ (v. 19). He adapted himself to Jewish customs as to win Jews to Christ (cf. Acts 16:3; 18:18; 21:23-24, 26). To those under the law he lived as one under the law (note his qualification of this statement in v. 20) to win those under the law (v. 20). To those without the law, he lived as though without the law (again note qualification of the statement in v. 21) to win those without the law (v. 21). He is weak among the weak in order to win the weak (v. 22a).
He concludes, "I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some" (v. 22b). Paul's goal is specific, the salvation of some people. He will do whatever it takes (becoming all things to all men) and he will use whatever means or method ("by all means") for the purpose of saving some people.
Why would Paul want to become all things to all people with all the risk that might come with this practice? One answer already given is that he does it in order to save some. Another way to look at this answer is stated in verse 23, "I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it." Paul does what he does because of the gospel, for the purpose of partaking of the benefits of the gospel with those who are saved through his ministry.
It would appear that Paul has a gospel to preach to different kinds of people in different cultures, and he becomes what those people are and uses whatever means necessary in each culture to preach the gospel so as to save some. We could say that while Paul's gospel does not change, his means of presenting the gospel changes. However, he takes care not to compromise the purity of the gospel itself.
Following Paul's example, the preacher of the gospel should be willing to make himself a member of the culture in which he is working, so that he can effectively communicate the gospel and save those who believe. He should adapt himself to his cultural setting for the sake of the gospel. There is one unchanging thing in this approach; the gospel. The gospel message will not change but the means of presenting and applying it will change according to the cultural context.
Constant study of the Word of God, culture, and prayer is needed to do this effectively.
[1] Byang H. Kato, "Theological Issues in Africa," Bibliotheca Sacra, 133 (1976): 530.
[2] See the discussion in John S. Pobee, Toward an Africa Theology, (Nashville, TN: Parthenon Press, 1979), 53-80.
[3] Kwame Bediako, Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience, (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2004), 32.
[3] For I
delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died
for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, [4] that he was buried,
that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, (1
Corinthians 15:3-4ESV).
Can One Be Christian
without Knowing the Gospel?
In 2004, I preached at a youth camp
in Cameroon, West Africa. One of my messages was titled "The Good News of
Salvation." I began by asking a series of questions, which follow with the
answers the attendees gave:
Is the gospel message necessary for
salvation? Answer, "Yes!!"
You mean you cannot be saved
without the gospel? Answer, "Right!"
So you cannot be
a Christian without understanding and believing the gospel? Answer,
"Absolutely correct!!"
Are you a Christian? Answer, "Yes."
Do you believe the gospel? "Yes, we do."
What is the gospel, then?
--------- Unfortunately, I was met with
blank stares. No clue how to articulate
the answer. They could not outline the gospel message.
This is troubling for two reasons:
1) These well-meaning young people believe that they are Christians and heading
to heaven. 2) Yet, they do not know what the gospel is. So the question
remains: can one be a Christian without knowing the gospel?
The Problem
This experience highlights a
problem in many mission contexts. While the church exists in terms of numbers,
it is deficient in terms of the gospel message. If one asks people in the
vicinity of the church, "What is the message of the church," what will the
answer be? If you were to ask members of the church what they believed in order
to be saved, will there be a clear statement of the gospel centering around the
death and resurrection of Christ? In most cases, one looks in vain. We need to
pay attention to the gospel we preach, to put in place means of preserving it
through the years so that future generations will not be in doubt as to what
the gospel is. This is the task of the missionary. To bring the gospel to a
people, preach it clearly, and train others to carry on the task of proclaiming
the gospel as they received it.
Editors Note: This post is one in a three part series. You can read the first article here.
I sit there, intrigued, as I listen to the man's story. We are in an important (and extremely unreached) city in North India. Detail upon intricate detail mounts as he narrates the amazing events that caused him to renounce Sikhism for Christianity. I listen intently as he tells us of the healing his mother received from a life-threatening illness, his subsequent rise from rags to riches, the persecutions he has faced, and most importantly, the supernatural vision in which he saw a figure cloaked in white who squeezed his hand and told him "I will bless you."
He rubs his moistened eyes, wiping away tears…and then he tells us that though it has been over 20 years now, he can still feel the hand of that otherworldly figure squeezing his hand today. My Western friends listen, some of them wary, but a couple of them, enthralled…
My Indian co-laborer nudges me as we listen. We are all too familiar with the gimmick—this is something we've seen and heard many times before. The man finishes his story, and one of my Western friends, a sincere brother—in fact, one who is fairly solid in his theology—remarks, "Wow! Praise God! That's such an awesome testimony brother!"
Inwardly, I feel flabbergasted! How is it that even people who know their Bibles and understand the Gospel well get duped by this stuff?! Isn't the complete absence of the gospel in his testimony obvious??
My Indian friend and I begin to explain to the man about the true forgiveness of sins that only Jesus can provide, about Christ's death and resurrection and his sin-bearing substitutionary sacrifice on the cross…he looks puzzled, for he has no idea what we're talking about! All he knows is that "Jesus is the only god who will bless you." That's why he became a Christian. That's why he became a pastor. And he's been a pastor for 20 years! He used to be a poor Sikh, but now he's driving a posh SUV as a "Christian bishop." He drives us to his "church" building, a multi-story mega-church that seats 3000, and tells us that he's the "bishop" over a ministry that plants several hundred churches every six months. But one could replace the name "Jesus" everywhere in his testimony with the name of any other god, and it wouldn't make a difference…
And to make matters worse, this "bishop" has a Western missionary, totally taken in by his story, functioning almost like his foot-servant. Why not, since the missionary can report back all this bishop's numbers as his own!
In my previous post, I talked about the evil fruit that results from a craze for numbers and "rapid growth" in missions in India. In this post, I want to focus on a second major problem—the West's enchantment with the "supernatural." My intent here is not to enter into the debate over whether God still operates supernaturally or not. Rather, I hope to alert my brothers and sisters in the West to the dangers of being allured by sensational stories that are devoid of the biblical gospel message. I also hope to call my brethren in both India and the West to keep the gospel message central in all our gospel work, and to prize the power God's Holy and Authoritative Word above all else.
Has the Holy Spirit Migrated from West to East?
The Beatles. Madonna. Julia Roberts. Eat, Pray, Love. College students without a job. One can think of a long list of people in the West who are fascinated with the otherworldliness of Eastern spirituality. And this trend has found its way into the Church as well. I've grown weary of hearing it over and over: "We Western Christians are so narrow-minded. We put God in a box! We place limits on what he can do. That's why we don't see God work supernaturally here like he does in the East." Many of my brothers and sisters in the West have bought into this false idea that the Western church is devoid of the Holy Spirit's supernatural work today—while the third member of the Trinity is greatly active in the East, in places like India and China, where people are purportedly seeing dreams and visions and miracles are happening all over the place. In the West, people are fascinated and allured by all the amazing testimonies and reports they hear from what is happening "out there" on the mission field.
But sadly, this fascination with the "supernatural" is often accompanied with a loss of discernment. At times, Westerners get so googly-eyed with sensational stories from the East that they don't even notice the non-existence of any form of the gospel message.
Westerners get so googly-eyed w/ sensational stories that they don't notice the absence of the Gospel. - Tweet this
Beloved friends, Wake Up! The Holy Spirit has not transferred locations! He is just as active in the West as He is anywhere else in the world, doing what He has been sent to do—empowering witness to Christ (John 15:26–27; Acts 1:16; 1 Pet 1:12); convicting the world concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8); leading the church into all truth (John 16:13); glorifying Christ by drawing people from darkness to light as the gospel message is proclaimed (2 Cor 3:12–4:6); and sealing God's people for the Day of Redemption (Eph 1:13).
Oh that we would recognize that the greatest, most supernatural work of God is when the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of sinners to the glory of Christ, regenerating and renewing them through the proclamation of the gospel, so that they are transferred out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ in repentance and faith! Do we not realize that the Spirit of God is sovereign and active, accomplishing this work in every place where Christ is faithfully proclaimed from the Scriptures?
I know of so many dear brothers and sisters in the West whose testimony goes something like this: "I grew up in a Christian home. From my youngest years, my parents taught me the Bible. My parents loved the Lord. They pointed me to Christ and told me of his sacrificial death on behalf of sinners. I was very young when I heard the gospel, repented of my sins, and trusted Christ for salvation. And so I've grown up almost all my life knowing the Lord." Beloved friends, is this less glorious or less supernatural in any way? Is this not a demonstration of the Holy Spirit's power to raise dead sinners to life? Have we forgotten the glory of the gospel? Have we forgotten that all heaven celebrates when one sinner comes to repentance?
Let us not emphasize other things, for this has disastrous consequences…
The Fabrication of Testimonies that Titillate
In my last post, I talked about the corruption prevalent in ministries in India owing to an emphasis on numbers in the West—Inflated numbers and false reports of great revivals are generated in order to bring in Western cash. Likewise, the West's fascination with sensational stories has a similar corrosive effect—testimonies are fabricated in order to dazzle and daze Western believers into generously giving financial support. And once again, I am sorry to say that my Western friends—even the theologically sound ones—are gullible.
In India, I have encountered professing Indian believers who don't say much to me by way of testimony—why would they, since I am just a fellow Indian. But these very people, when they meet a Westerner, as soon as they see white skin, are quick to narrate stories of dreams, visions, and amazing supernatural experiences.
On more than one occasion, I have had the heartbreaking experience of meeting churches and believers in the West who have had the awful experience of being duped by Indian "ministries." For instance, one Indian "evangelist" hoodwinked a whole network of churches with his fantastic testimony:
He claimed to have been raised as a religious Hindu, and his family owned a snake that they worshipped daily. As an adult, he was gripped with religious fervor and zeal for Hinduism. He was on his way to attack and kill Christians when he saw a vision of Christ that halted him, and brought him to tears. He then became a Christian, resolving to proclaim the faith he once persecuted, and despite being rejected by his family and friends, he is following Christ and serving him as an evangelist.
Several churches and ministries supported this "man of God," only to later learn that the entire story was made up! This man actually grew up as the son of a pastor in a "Christian home," and fabricated this testimony because he learned that it is only testimonies like this that generate support from the West. And let me assure you that this story is not an isolated case! There are many, many others like this one… and in every case, my Western brothers and sisters are quick to be amazed—and sadly—deceived.
Such deception could be avoided by exercising more caution and discernment—by verifying every detail of such testimonies (especially in view of its extraordinary details) on the account of eye-witnesses; and by carefully checking if the person understands the biblical gospel and prizes it above such experiences.
The Propagation of the Prosperity "Gospel"
When Western believers unwittingly get carried away with sensational stories of the supernatural, not only does corruption thrive in India, but so does false teaching. Even churches and believers who decry the evils of the heretical prosperity gospel actually promote its growth in India. How? By endorsing and supporting ministries in India that emphasize great miracles while teaching the anti-gospel health-and-wealth doctrine. Because the ministries in India that emphasize great miracles are also those that most often teach the anti-gospel health-and-wealth doctrine. They do not begin with the biblical gospel, so we should not be surprised to find that the content of their ministries is not the biblical gospel! Yes, it's true. And this is also tied to the craze for numbers: the "prosperity gospel" prospers, and brings in the people by the droves. It thus boasts of both supernatural "miracles" and big numbers.
Let's Put the Emphasis in the Right Place
My brothers and sisters, the only way for true gospel growth to happen in India is for us to remember how gospel growth comes—through the Gospel! The Gospel proclaims that all people everywhere have sinned and rebelled against God our Creator and stand justly condemned under his holy judgment; but God graciously saves sinners through his Son Jesus Christ, who lived a sinless life, died a sacrificial death on the cross as a substitute for sinners, and was raised from the dead, so that all who repent of their wickedness and trust in him alone receive full forgiveness of sins and eternal life through him. The Story of God's great and supernatural plan of salvation must take precedence over all other "supernatural stories."
Let us not get carried away by stories of dreams and visions, but let us stand firm on the bedrock of the inspired Word of God. Even the apostle Peter, who was an eye-witness to the glory of Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, who heard the very voice of God and saw with his own eyes the Son of God in all his majestic glory, tells us that we have something more sure than his experience. Something "more fully confirmed, to which we would do well to pay attention"—the Bible (2 Pet 1:16–21).
The faithful Indian co-laborers that I know, who sincerely work for true gospel growth in the hardest regions of India do one simple thing when anyone comes to them with stories of a dream or vision or anything else. Open God's Word. Point them to the Bible. Remind them that such "supernatural" occurrences might be shaky and uncertain, but the Scripture is steadfast and true. Do we thank God for dreams, visions, supernatural healings, deliverances and any other special acts of God's providence that glorify Christ? Absolutely. But the most supernatural work of all is when the Holy Spirit brings people to submit to the Supernatural Book.
My brothers and sisters in the West, will you hear me out? In your support of gospel work in India, will you be discerning and resolve not to get carried away by the sensational stuff? Will you remember that the proclamation of the gospel and the teaching of the Scriptures are what produces a people conformed to Christ's image? Will you ensure that any "gospel work" that you endorse or support is founded on the message of Christ's death and resurrection for sinners, the gospel of repentance and faith, and God's Holy and Inspired Word? I pray that you will.
So the next time you hear a testimony from India (or anywhere), be careful to discern whether the person has truly understood the gospel. And be careful to ensure that God receives the glory above all else for his marvelous supernatural work in saving lost sinners.
In my next post, I will address another burning issue in missions in India—"contextualization."
The conclusion of The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott
If the global diffusion of evangelicalism proves eventually to have
transmuted into the global disintegration of evangelicalism, it will not be
because of the philosophical and hermeneutical boldness of a few post-
conservative evangelical theologians in the North. It will rather be because
in the explosive popular Christianity of the southern hemisphere the
balance will have been tipped away from a Bible-centered gospel that,
while being properly holistic, still holds to the soteriological centrality and
ethical normativity of the cross, towards a form of religious materialism
that subordinates the cross to a crude theology of divine blessing reduced
to the promise of unlimited health and wealth here and now. In the
majority world the sharpest challenge confronting believers in the message
of the atoning power of the cross derives not from Enlightenment
scepticism but from the daily realities of endemic poverty, hunger,
pandemic disease and structural injustice. In cultures in which the
traditional role of religious rituals and specialists was to provide power to
ward off sickness and evil, Pentecostal versions of evangelicalism that
give central place to the victory of Christ and power of the Spirit have
proved immensely attractive. The question is whether such deeply
inculturated variants of Christianity will succeed in grounding the message
of the victory of Christ over the powers of darkness in a biblical
eschatology that recognizes that the full establishment of the kingdom of
God is still to come. The battle for the integrity of the gospel in the
upcoming years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily
in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty
towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
In the previous
post I argued that the people invited to come to Jesus in Matthew 11:28 are
believers. In this post I want to look at what makes them weary and burdened.
The teachings of Jesus call his followers to live lives that are different than
the standards of the world. In doing so, they will face persecution and suffer.
Here are some examples of the kind of people who will suffer in following
These are people described in the sermon on the Mount (Matt 5:1-10): the poor in spirit (who know that the
kingdom belongs to them); those who
mourn now (knowing that comfort awaits them); those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (they will be
satisfied in the future); those who are
pure in heart (something that comes through the labor of pursuing
holiness); the peacemakers; those who are persecuted for the sake of
righteousness; those who are
insulted and persecuted and have all kinds of false things said against them
because they belong to Jesus. These people are laboring and Jesus is
inviting them to COME.
The people invited are those who
labor to let their light shine in the world so that people will see their
good works and glorify God (Matt 5:16);
the one who, while presenting their
offering realize that someone has something against them, leaves his
offering and goes and is reconciled with the brother (5:23-24); it is the person who
does not resist an evil person;
and when sued for a shirt, gives his
coat also (5:39-42); those invited
are those who labor to love their
enemies and pray for those who mean them harm (5:43-47); it it is the people who
are striving to be perfect just as their heavenly Father is perfect (5:48).
The people invited are those who
fast but do not let their fasting be noticed by men, (which is hard to do (6:16-18). It includes those who
work hard not to store up treasures on earth, but invest in the Kingdom (6:21). And those who are not anxious about tomorrow but trust God to provide for
their needs (6:25-34), and last but
not the least, those who take up their cross and follow Jesus (10:38).
These are examples of people who live lives different from the world. The
reason is that they are followers of Jesus. Leaving the world behind and
turning to Jesus, embracing the life of the Kingdom, does not make life easy.
On the contrary, it makes life more difficult because you have to do things
like turning the other cheek, going two miles when asked to go one, giving a
person your coat when he is trying to take away your shirt, not resisting the
evil person etc.
To live this life as a
Christian is to labor. It weighs on you and you feel tired. Jesus says to you, "Come
to me . . . and I will give you rest."