Posted on 04/26/2016 7:07:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
83 out of how many thousands? Each conversion is a tiny victory but many such tiny victories don’t begin to stanch the floods of Satan.
“83 out of how many thousands? “
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Every journey starts with one small step.
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Yes God will prevail but that doesn't mean He must allow the apostate Westerners to continue to survive. Christianity is thriving in East Asia and dying in Europe and the Americas.
“Those thousands are not a static number to be gradually whittled down”
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You are correct,of course.
I’ve been trying to be a “glass half full” person,but it’s becoming more difficult every day.
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Not to become a Catholic. I’ve been an RCIA team member for four years. We meet every week during the school year with the goal being acceptance into the Church at Easter Vigil. If they’re Muslims they’ll be Baptized, then Confirmed, and then receive their First Holy Communion. It’s a great event.
If they convert, they should change their names — discard the Islamic names with which they have been cursed from birth and take legally their Christian names. They can then be born again if they are sincere. Most will not be sincere.
Eighty three adult baptisms in Vienna last year. We are supposed to be impressed.
The number of westerns converting to Islam is about 100 times higher.
There is NO REASON for them to practice any version of taqqiya in this situation. There are few if any Christians left in Austria for them to impress; in fact, it is probably at their peril that they become Christians there. I’ll bet it wouldn’t take many such converts for there to be more ex-Muslim Christians in Austria than there are Austrian native Christians. I’m serious.
They’re just taking Ann Coulter’s advice. :)
Faster please. If the Church really believed in the New Evangelization, this would be a targeted mission effort.
The beauty of God’s Plan of Salvation is that we all were condemned before we ever were saved.
One is either saved through faith in Christ or they are condemned.
All humans are condemned prior to salvation. Only God can convert somebody to Christianity. Anything performed by anybody else isn’t Christianity.
Once some escape the theocracies they understand and want the individual freedom and liberty.
All 42 of them...
It’s a trap!
you know about 1.5 years ago or so I read that members of Islam would pretend to convert to other religion to move up the leadership roles in the efforts to take over. It is hard fro me to trust anyone from this religion
Yep. Taquiya.
This is not that uncommon in Muslim lands. I have heard many testimonies just like this!
It appears that the Lord is doing some work there. We should get serious about aggressively evangelizing, especially in Europe, like among these “migrants”!
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