British Pastor's Six Steps for Converting Hindus to Christianity

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British Pastor's Six Steps for Converting Hindus to Christianity

Source: http://www.cmf.org.uk/nucleus//nucjul00/hindu.htm

 

UNITED KINGDOM: In this article, Juge Ram, a Christian convert from

Hinduism and Pastor of Emmanuel Church in Birmingham, England,

answers questions on Hinduism and explains how to reach Hindus with

the Bible. After giving a detailed background of Hindu beliefs and

culture, he suggests a few methods which Christians can use to reach

out to Hindus.

 

Firstly, Hindus arriving from India generally feel isolated or have

difficulties knowing how things operate. Christians can use these

opportunities to offer them assistance, establish friendships and win

their trust. Christians can befriend and help the Hindu wife who is

often at home all day alone with the children and may need friendship

and assistance adjusting to a new culture. Christians should help

them as much as possible and try to get into their homes. It may

be a long and slow process, but it is one of the most successful ways

of bringing Hindus to Christianity.

 

Secondly, the local churches need to demonstrate a concern for the

Hindus in their communities. If there is a large Asian

community and many members cannot speak English, they need to hear the

religious teachings in their own language. This can be done by having

Christian literature in appropriate languages. The church may consider

including books in Asian languages in Christian bookshops or

bookstalls at local events. From time to time churches can have a

bilingual service or an Asian evening. In addition, a bilingual

sermon or a recording of the Bible in their own language can be a

powerful tool for communicating with non-English speaking Hindus.

 

Thirdly, Christians must be aware of cultural differences when

approaching Hindus or risk offending them. For example, a woman who

wants to be a witness to her Asian friends should not wear

miniskirts or other revealing clothing. Men should approach men only.

 

 

Fourthly, Christians should not attack Hinduism or risk alienating the

Hindus. Rather, it is suggested that Christians ask questions about

their religion and let Hindus see the "folly" of it themselves.

 

Fifthly, Hindus are very polite and may give the impression that they

are listening and interested. Christians must not be fooled by this

and think that because they agree with them they are genuinely

interested. Many Hindus will say they believe in Christ and they may

even speak of repentance, but they will continue to worship Hindu

Gods. Therefore, Christians must make it clear to Hindus that they

need to make a clean break from Hinduism.

 

 

Lastly, Christians should use the Bible when witnessing. They can

read the Bible with Hindus and point out how relevant it is to their

lives. Christians must treat the Bible with respect and never put it

on the floor. Hindus can be given copies of the New Testament in

their own language if they cannot read English. Christians should

explain biblical terms through a simple biblical framework and use

biblical or other illustrations to assist them inconveying their

message. The pastor concludes by saying that Hindus are

lost, spiritually blind and are without hope in this world and in the

next. He says that only Christ can release them and exhorts

Christians to share the gospel with them with great humility and

great confidence.

 

The number of practicing Christians in England drops at a rate of

1,000 per day.

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Namaste Baheusa,

 

Thanks for sharing the post. Hmmmm.....certainly a lot of food for

thought and digestion. Some of us may get heartburn but

nevertheless, we'll stomach it :-) Didn't realise that England's

practising Christians drop at the rate of 1000 a day! Astonishing.

 

Ommmm,

Sy

 

 

, "baheusa <baheusa>"

<baheusa> wrote:

>

>

> British Pastor's Six Steps for Converting Hindus to Christianity

> Source: http://www.cmf.org.uk/nucleus//nucjul00/hindu.htm

>

> UNITED KINGDOM: In this article, Juge Ram, a Christian convert from

> Hinduism and Pastor of Emmanuel Church in Birmingham, England,

> answers questions on Hinduism and explains how to reach Hindus with

> the Bible. After giving a detailed background of Hindu beliefs and

> culture, he suggests a few methods which Christians can use to

reach

> out to Hindus.

>

> Firstly, Hindus arriving from India generally feel isolated or

have

> difficulties knowing how things operate. Christians can use these

> opportunities to offer them assistance, establish friendships and

win

> their trust. Christians can befriend and help the Hindu wife who is

> often at home all day alone with the children and may need

friendship

> and assistance adjusting to a new culture. Christians should help

> them as much as possible and try to get into their homes. It may

> be a long and slow process, but it is one of the most successful

ways

> of bringing Hindus to Christianity.

>

> Secondly, the local churches need to demonstrate a concern for the

> Hindus in their communities. If there is a large Asian

> community and many members cannot speak English, they need to hear

the

> religious teachings in their own language. This can be done by

having

> Christian literature in appropriate languages. The church may

consider

> including books in Asian languages in Christian bookshops or

> bookstalls at local events. From time to time churches can have a

> bilingual service or an Asian evening. In addition, a bilingual

> sermon or a recording of the Bible in their own language can be a

> powerful tool for communicating with non-English speaking Hindus.

>

> Thirdly, Christians must be aware of cultural differences when

> approaching Hindus or risk offending them. For example, a woman who

> wants to be a witness to her Asian friends should not wear

> miniskirts or other revealing clothing. Men should approach men

only.

>

>

> Fourthly, Christians should not attack Hinduism or risk alienating

the

> Hindus. Rather, it is suggested that Christians ask questions about

> their religion and let Hindus see the "folly" of it themselves.

>

> Fifthly, Hindus are very polite and may give the impression that

they

> are listening and interested. Christians must not be fooled by this

> and think that because they agree with them they are genuinely

> interested. Many Hindus will say they believe in Christ and they

may

> even speak of repentance, but they will continue to worship Hindu

> Gods. Therefore, Christians must make it clear to Hindus that they

> need to make a clean break from Hinduism.

>

>

> Lastly, Christians should use the Bible when witnessing. They can

> read the Bible with Hindus and point out how relevant it is to

their

> lives. Christians must treat the Bible with respect and never put

it

> on the floor. Hindus can be given copies of the New Testament in

> their own language if they cannot read English. Christians should

> explain biblical terms through a simple biblical framework and use

> biblical or other illustrations to assist them inconveying their

> message. The pastor concludes by saying that Hindus are

> lost, spiritually blind and are without hope in this world and in

the

> next. He says that only Christ can release them and exhorts

> Christians to share the gospel with them with great humility and

> great confidence.

>

> The number of practicing Christians in England drops at a rate of

> 1,000 per day.

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My question is: why would the hindus want to become Christians and why

would the Christians want to convert the hindus? why all this strategic

approach?

 

The author of this text of recomendations seems not to know quite well

in depth hinduism. I don´t know either about hinduism in depth but I

think when hindus worship different gods they are worshiping different

manifestations of the same God who may appear to be different entities

in some levels of existence but in the highest one they are all the

same one God. By worshipping Ganesha we worship the one God aswell...

 

These kind of persons who want to change the world don´t seem to put

themselves in the skin of the other persons. Imagine a hindu willing to

convert a Christian and saying that it is disgusting to see how

Christians worship mother Mary and the many saints and not the one

God...

 

For me, better make friends and let each one cultivate the religion

their prefer. No religion is better than the other one...

 

On the other side, reading the report, the christian approach suggested

there seems totally HYPOCRIT...it doesn´t matter trully what are the

feelings of this hypothetic hindu woman at home all day, all it counts

is to CONVERT HER. It makes no sens to me...it is false it is not based

in love in the least...

 

I hope this kind of procedure is not commonly used in the UK cause then

I don´t need to find out the cause of the withdrawal of people from

christianity there...

 

 

this is just my humble opinion

Kisses

Barbara