BTW, during street E on saturday, instead of street E-ing, we were street E-ed. HAHA! There were like 8 of these Indonesian chinese middle aged woman "evangelising" too! The reason why I put evangelising in inverted commas is because...they're not entirely Christians.
I nicknamed them "gan ma pai" HAHAHAHA! Because their mission is to "proclaim the message of God the MOTHER" WhOaA...When I heard that I almost laughed man. They were talking about how God created man and WOMAN in His image...So God has a motherly, feminine side too and they are harping on that.
When I asked them who Jesus is to them, they gave the correct answer "The Almighty God"
When I asked "Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? Have you accepted Him as your personal Lord & Saviour?" they said something an equivalent of a "Huh?" and went on sharing their gospel which starts from Revelation 22 and they go on to say they must find out who the bride is and who the spirit is...Doing some really shallow cross-referencing they linked the bride to the "wife of the lamb" and all...
They are using the same NIV Bible by the way. I've got 2 big problems with them...
1) Their poor understanding of the Bible. The way they cross reference verses is totally wrong. They are cross referencing the WORDS individually and not the intended, contextual meaning of the verses and chapters. Randomly cross-referencing and thereby deriving at a extrapolated hypothesis is very dangerous. They have, in essence, started a cult.
2) Their recognition of Jesus as their Saviour. I don't know if they do the conventional "sinner's prayer" and all, but from what they are saying, they are all sharing theories of what they understand of God. They come from an angle of motherly love and all...Which is not entirely wrong...but emphasis on that without painting the full picture of what Christianity is, in effect, sugar-coating the gospel. And it will also cripple it.
I can't really fault them for not knowing their Bible well, because, I myself don't really know it well enough to quote verses to guide them back.
The Bible says that in the last days many will preach in His name, but not all are preaching the right stuff about His name. Matthew 24:11 "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many."
I find that if we are not grounded in the Word, we'll soon be overwhelmed by such people who use the word to thumb us down with their own intepretation of the Bible. Thus, a thorough understanding of it is required in today's world where truth is not apparent and distorted so harmlessly.
Anyway, Winnie continued clarifying a few other verses with her. We left by then since Winnie is leaving from there. Haha.
After that, we had lunch and I had a quick, piercing session with Cai Jie & part 2's tomorrow (Wednesday). Haha.
I then headed to Orchard to meet Melvin & I went voucher shopping :D I bought a brown POA (People of Asia) belt ($40), a really, really nice plimsoll (slim cut sneakers) from Everlast ($60) and a pocket "Pictureka" (pronounced peek-chir-ee-kah) for $10 :D
Didn't take pictures of any of my purchased merchandise...haha. And next time when we go out, we can play "Pictureka"! :D It's a really fun picture-based, reaction game. Facilitates interaction and brings out the competitive side in you. :D Haha. :)
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