[RaceBannon]

If Jesus is so popular at your church, I would wonder if it is the Jesus of the Bible at all.

[PlutoPlatter]

The seventeenth-century New England Puritan missionaries largely set the course for modern missions. They defined their task as preaching the Gospel so that Native Americans would be converted and receive personal salvation. But early in their missionary experience these New Englanders concluded that Indian converts could only be Christians if they were "civilized." The model by which they measured their converts was English Puritan civilization. The missionaries felt compassion and responsibility for their converts. They gathered these new Christians into churches for nurture and discipline and set up programs to transform Christian Indians into English Puritans.

[PlutoPlatter]

As much as anything, when the government and church run schools as well as church missionaries cut the hair of our young boys and girls, it symbolized the attempt to civilize native people and turn them into good little Englishmen, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, etc. . . . EuroAmericans. The problem with these bad haircuts, change of traditional fashion and clothing, and the forced replacement of language and culture, is that it is a denial of a people's Godgiven identity and existence. If I can be so bold, it could even legitimately be viewed as a kind cultural genocidea type of cultural circumcision.

[PlutoPlatter]

I believe there is a prophetic call from the heart of God to the Anglo Church in America to recognize their historical oversight and ostracism of native brethren from the mission of the Church and to make amends.

[PlutoPlatter]

You are going love this quote and I'm sure you will twist it with your theology.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
— Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux

[Quix]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I'm absolutely certain that THE JESUS OF NAZARETH, BETHLEHEM, JERUSALEM--THE ANOINTED ONE; GOD WITH US; GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN . . . .

DOES

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NOT

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COME ANYWHERE CLOSE

to fitting in the tidy little box you have so carefully constructed for him. And a shoehorn won't help, either.

[TexanToTheCore]

"If Jesus is so popular at your church, I would wonder if it is the Jesus of the Bible at all."

Surely you jest.......

[Hat-Trick]

I've never been to the Texan's church, but after reading the myriad of man's precepts that you've been espousing as Christian doctorine in this thread since post #1, I'm pretty sure that Jesus of the Bible has already given us his viewpoint on men like you in the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 7. When you have a moment please review it and pay particular attention to verses 6 through 9. If you're still confused after reviewing this scripture, here's a hint: you're not any different than those Pharisees.

It's because of people like you that I'm glad the 1st Amendment to our US Constitution was written for people like me.

Hat-Trick