RASTAFARI MOVEMENT Evangelistic tips
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THE RASTAFARI MOVEMENT.
Evangelistic tips
Introduction
During my course of study with on Evangelism and Missions I became aware of the importance of contacting and developing strategies for ministry to Hidden People Groups. I believe that, as Christians we cannot continue to ignore the mission challenge of New Religious Movements in our City and in our world. Some extreme and tragic examples are the Heavens Gate Group in Santa Fe, California. We all remember that in 1997 the authorities found 39 decaying bodies in their mission house. We came to find out that it is a new religious movement which combined elements of neo-Gnosticism, science fiction, pseudo-Christian teachings and apocalypticism revolving around UFOs. Following the teachings of Marshall Applewhite, the groups members did not believe they were committing suicide. Rather they had merely left their containers (bodies) for new, genderless forms resembling popular Hollywood depictions of extraterrestrials residing in a cosmic level Above Human.
Unfortunately, as bizarre and tragic as the Heavens gate suicides were, they were not the only New Religious Movement out there to receive media attention in the last few decades. Just a few weeks prior to the discovery of Heavens Gate, the latest victims of the Order of the Solar Temple were discovered...