Originally posted by FMFno i do not but then again you have provided no guarantees that people are not being induced to become Christians for charitable and material benefits.
You mentioned "bribery". Do you seriously think that non-Christians are denied access to the maternity clinics and primary schools and water & sanitation infrastructure etc. that result from the community efforts?
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI lived in a post oil-boomtown in a backwater region. There were development schemes of all kinds going on. The town was about 70% Christian. I was not involved in the provision of medical services or any building work. Do you object to Christians working in preventative health care or in raising literacy?
did you build any hospitals and offer any medical services in order to suck the indigenous population in?
Originally posted by robbie carrobieThis seems to be contemptuous of both the Christians working there and those that are brought to Jesus as a result of interacting with those Christians.
no i do not but then again you have provided no guarantees that people are not being induced to become Christians for charitable and material benefits.
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Originally posted by FMFThey can do what they like except make 'rice Christians'. This I cannot approve of, it almost as bad as trying to buy a stairway to heaven.
I lived in a post oil-boomtown in a backwater region. There were development schemes of all kinds going on. The town was about 70% Christian. I was not involved in the provision of medical services or any building work. Do you object to Christians working in preventative health care or in raising literacy?
Originally posted by robbie carrobieHow many of those new Christian Papuans would you need to talk to you before you would be convinced that their "coming to Christ" was not for the wrong reasons?
all i need is some guarantees that they are coming to Christ for the right reasons.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieCan you prove that those people in involved in the JW literacy program's you earlier cited are not 'rice Christians'?
They can do what they like except make 'rice Christians'. This I cannot approve of, it almost as bad as trying to buy a stairway to heaven.
Gotta run.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieDo you approve of Christians working in things like preventative health care or in raising literacy?
They can do what they like except make 'rice Christians'. This I cannot approve of, it almost as bad as trying to buy a stairway to heaven.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieDo you think Christians involved in community development should hide their Christian beliefs and practices away when they are working in the community?
They can do what they like except make 'rice Christians'. This I cannot approve of, it almost as bad as trying to buy a stairway to heaven.