Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Manipulating someone to Christ

The idea of manipulating people to Christ has come up over and over again in our reading both in our discussion book and in our online reading. It is frightening that so many of our churches are trying to manipulate people to Christ and make the "sheepfold" look like the place that they are in now, all under the guise of "seeker-sensitive" and "culturally relevant." Surely the believers that are leading these churches aren't consciously manipulating, at least I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. But if you do get sheep into the sheepfold using this method, when do you tell them the truth about God's expectations? More importantly, are they really sheep? Was there a true conversion? Was there ever a discussion of sin? That discussion will always make someone uncomfortable, at least in this culture where first people need to be convinced that they are dirty rotten sinners.

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