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Are They Really Christians? Imagine yourself in Africa ... The native culture is one where there is ... ancestor worship, the worship of the dead, idolatry in abundance, a reliance on fetishes, a system of works to please the people's gods, including a daily sacrifice for sin. The religion is a part of the social structure so that no one can leave without being ostracised from the community. They condemn those who turn to Jesus and who say that they know that they are going to Heaven. Then one day you see them take the hip of a, long since dead, religious leader and parade it around the town. The people lead the procession and publicly pray for this dead person to protect them and prosper them. They also pray to other dead people who they believe to be their mediators. They dress up in strange clothes and a drum is pounded in a dirge like fashion. They carry the hip in a glass box on the shoulders of four men, followed closely by the priests and religious leaders, into their temple. Then they bow before their god, which they have made with their own hands, and is kept at the front of the temple. They place the hip close to the head of the same dead religious leader. The head sits in a glass box adorned by a huge gold spire like shrine. The head is black in colour, shrivelled up and so disgusting looking that it would turn your stomach. All the children of the land are encouraged to come and worship at the foot of the dead head. What would you imagine this type of religion to be? Occult perhaps? Surely not Christian! Imagine, as a Christian, not wanting to offend these people, you call them Christians, just as you are. They say that they only believe in one God and they call him Jesus but that is only what they say. Really they are not born again of the Spirit of God at all. Would you not be deceiving them, not to say anything of yourself, by calling them Christians? Your selfishness in not sharing the Good News with these people would affect them for all eternity. If they don’t repent they would go to hell just as you deserve to. But you, if you are a Christian, have been spared this horrible future and you have The Message that could set these people free from their sin. You may have to imagine these things happening in Africa but if you come to Drogheda in Ireland on the first Sunday of July each year, you will see the procession of the hip happen before your very eyes. You see this is what Catholicism is really about. So many Christians are flirting with it and foolishly thinking that it is Christian. There may well be a very few Christians in the Catholic Church but as a Church it is far from Christian. I say these things about the Catholic faith, to “Christians”, because so many ‘‘Christians’’ are believing the lie that Catholicism is Christian. It most certainly is NOT! In so believing they keep Catholics from hearing the Good News. These Christians love themselves but not the Catholics they claim to love. The message of the Cross is where the power of God is to free Catholics, as well as Protestants (and everyone else), from their sin. In calling them Christian you are merely deceiving them and yourself. Don’t keep The Message from them. Don’t be deceived - if you really love them - reach out to Catholics (and everyone else) with The Message of the Cross. The only message with the power to save them from their sin. The Message about the only Saviour - JESUS. Read the Bible and see the difference. © 1995 RNW Vollebregt If you have any questions regarding this please drop me an e-mail.
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