When a tract repels
I wish this were unbelievable. A group of “conservative evangelical” Christians try to convert people engaged in a Good Friday ecumenical walk of witness. There is a kind of sick irony in trying to hand a tract about Jesus to people who are following a man carrying a cross.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Do we actually know that these people were
From the words quoted they sound more like Jehovah’s Witnesses or members of some other pseudo-Christian cult. Ian mentions Westminster Chapel, but I have challenged him in a comment whether he in fact has any evidence to link these people to that church. I am sure the leaders of Westminster Chapel would be appalled at the sentiments reported.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I don’t think we do know who they are — the main reason for using inverted commas.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I know many evangelicals who believe that RC are going to hell. I can see them doing the same sort of thing, sadly.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Yes, Nathan, there are such evangelicals, but not many of them in London, and if they are at Westminster Chapel, where Martyn Lloyd-Jones and R.T. Kendall were ministers, I am sure they are not officially representing the church. People from that church do good street evangelism work. Indeed I myself was approached on the street by R.T. Kendall in about 1995, when I happened to be walking past his church on other business, and when I told him I was not just a Christian but a Bible translator he said I had made his day. But I am sure they would not interfere with another church’s ceremony, use the kind of language reported, or surround someone until the police were forced to intervene.