Featured How far would you go to witness to a Satanist?

Yea but how do I know you are a Christian ....I cant see your heart....you could be acting the part of a Christian for all I know. Anyway, I'm not a Calvinist....but I do know how a Calvinistic Methodist would have answered the question.

 

Severe trials sister....I sincerely hope not! Perhaps I'm biased but I believe there is a purpose for severe trials....and excuse me for reaching, but I believe that this purpose is to see the Lord in the least of your bretheren.....then (and this is the very hard thing for most) to reach out and touch the flesh.

I have stated this in the past and want to restate....if I were to grow my beard out to the scruffy level, wore shabby clothes (complete with holes) and took an ole cup and begged in front of your church on Sunday morning....what would happen?

I believe that to be the real "real " test of who is or isn't a "true " Christian....and who isn't.

 

Yes there was once one man who got it actually two.....but that's in the past and they are both dead....and they have made these men's churches a place abhorant to Christ. I still look but I don't find. You might take me in but when I was hungry I was turned away, and when I was ...... oh what's the use....God saves,not churches. Therefore, look to find me with the broken, with the destitute, with the orphans and the widows....that's my church, where I
will find Christ. And isn't that what God is calling us into? Read John 20:27....does not Thomas the apostle resemble us and our temptation for heady faith? So what does Jesus do? He asks Thomas to touch the wounds......and that bretheren completes it. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.

 

AAAAAAAAAAMEN, SISTER SCARLETT!!!! AAAAAAAMEN!!!!!


One cannot separate the head from the body-----Jesus Christ being the head and the church being the body!!!

So, keep searching for one where the head is not separated from the body and the body is not separated from the head

And note----that the Lord Jesus is not coming back for the homeless, the ridiculed, the down and outers, the punks and the pimps

Christ Jesus is coming back for a spotless church!!! He's coming back for His body!!! The down and outers, pimps, punks, and homeless----when they come to the Lord Jesus just like I did----they become part of the church that I belong to---I belong to the church that belongs to the Lord Jesus!!:thumbs:

 

Good luck finding a spotless church.:laugh:

 

I haven't closed the door....rather I have expanded my definition of it.

 

That was my exact thought. BTW who do you think the "THEM" are in this verse? "Que the Jeopardy music"

 

Mark 2:17 New International Version (NIV)

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

 

Your comment is very confusing especially using covens, Satanists and white supremists inner changeably (if I misunderstand, please forgive me).

I simply share the Gospel with them-ie they are sinners, God commands all me to repent and believe and that Christ died to save sinners. It is really that simple.

Why are you scared? I thought that as Christians that we have the Word of God (Bible), prayer, and the Holy Spirit.

BTW, I know of a situation where a man was the Grand Master of a Satanic coven and was even born on Oct 31 (and if you know anything at all about Satanism that is the holy grail of a Satanist) who was truly converted to Christ through someone sharing the Gospel with him. It happens-imagine that. I have never led a Satanist to Christ, but have shared the Gospel with them and it can get quite interesting

 

Back in the late 1980s, I found myself "witnessing" to quite a few self-styled satanists in Central Texas. It started out by the simple act of prayer. I, and a group of about seven or eight other people were praying for God to break into their lives and unseat the evil one. Next thing you know we were under demonic harassment and found ourselves in close contact with them through circumstances we did not engineer. I decided that God was answering my prayers and took every opportunity to love them in deed and word.

If they are not just play-acting, they are people who are experiencing quite a bit of heady power. The demonic manifestations of power around them make them feel invincible. By being people of love, confidently trusting in God and expressing the grace of the Kingdom of God in action and word, it puts them in a strange position. The grace and love is attractive, but the addiction of power is strong. I had a number of them try spells and send demons after me - much of the time I did not know about it because I did not experience any signs - while other times I faced down impressive demonic manifestations in the name of Jesus. The combination of love and grace and demonstration of God's loving power over the meager malevolent powers of the demonic brought several people we were praying for to repentance and faith in Christ. There were others who began to avoid us in every way possible and that we did not see any manifestations of change in their lives at the time we lost touch. I pray that God continued working with them and they eventually came to faith in Christ.

Saying that, if God is leading the questioner to seriously invest his/her life in witnessing to someone in the occult, you should not discourage it. If they are simply going to wave a tract at them or use an evangelism method (the "Way of the Master" (sic), the "Four Spiritual Laws" or the "Roman Road"), they should avoid an encounter. Clearly they are not spiritually-ready or prepared to
do that type of ministry.

 

Unless the Lord changes anyone's mind, they cannot come to faith. That's the human condition.

If I go out and manage to change someone's mind about Christ through my rhetoric, sales technique or personal charisma, I still haven't done evangelism.

As a Christian, my job is to immerse the lost into the living and present reality of the life of the Triune God and teach them to do the things that Jesus taught so that they can live and growth in the everlasting Kingdom of God*.

Simply put, that is our commission from Jesus, and we are empowered by his spirit to do it under His unlimited authority.


* And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28-28-20)

 

Stil, you spent time with this Grand Master and came away without a thing except valueable experience

The Grand Master was a believer when I met him. He had shared the Gospel with several and seen a few convert to Christ -if I remember correctly.