[Cronos]

Also, your link has a number of incongruities: by a professing Christian Hindu woman. -- "professing Christian Hindu"? Hinduism is a religion, Indian is the nationality (or Bharatiya in Hindi)

Secondly, it says a "mark of Shiva", now a Shiva Tilak looks like

three horizontal bands and one single vertical. And no, that did not happen.

So there are quite a few inconsistencies...

[Cronos]

From US Mission frontiers

The Kingdom of God is more than the Church, local or global. The work of God is bigger than the work of the Church. We Protestants lack a theology of the Kingdom as the broader context for our theology of salvation. ..

Why couldn’t we have used bhajans instead of Western liturgy? Why couldn’t we have built temples and mandapams (covered rest areas in front of a temple)? Why couldn’t we cite great Hindu poets? To do so would be to acknowledge the greatness of God.

Why can’t Christian men wear the veshti (skirt­like cloth) and Christian women the tilak (decora­tive dot on the forehead)? Why can’t we be vegetar­ian, as God had ordained in the original creation (cf. Gen. 1:29)? Why do we have to have pastors and bishops and elections and committees for everything under the sun? There is no reason the Indian church cannot be Indian, or “Hindu” in the cultural sense.

But the Indian Church is a Western­ized community, from dress to worship style to the way we organize ourselves. It is the burden of our past. We cannot escape it. Yet we do not have to drag others into it. We can rejoice that followers of Christ might yet be freed from the cultural entrapments of the missionary era. We ought not seek to replicate the Western church in India. It just doesn’t fit the culture—and vast numbers will never join it.

The Key points are these:

1. But the Indian Church is a Western­ized community, from dress to worship style

2. We can rejoice that followers of Christ might yet be freed from the cultural entrapments of the missionary era.

3. We ought not seek to replicate the Western church in India. It just doesn’t fit the culture—and vast numbers will never join it

The key point is the message of Christ, not making people non-vegetarian or making them wear Western clothes etc