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Watch your doctrine so you can witness to people of false religions

by Joel Radford

In past bulletin articles we’ve been looking at how best to witness to people of false religions. In the last week of the series, I want to encourage you to know good doctrine. Doctrine is another word for official teaching. Unfortunately many people associate the words ‘doctrine’ and ‘teaching’ with the words ‘painful’ and ‘boring’. […]

Provide for the social needs of people leaving false religions

by Joel Radford

In the past articles we’ve been looking at how best to witness to people of false religions. Last week I encouraged providing for the physical needs of people leaving false religions, this week I want to focus on social needs. Humans are created in the image of God which means that we reflect God’s character […]

Provide for the physical needs of people leaving false religions

by Joel Radford

In the last few articles we’ve been looking at how best to witness to people of false religions. Today I want to encourage you to provide for the physical needs of people leaving false religions. Leaving a religion can be an enormous challenge. Usually it is not simply a change of intellectual assent, e.g. I […]

Get your definitions right with people of false religions

by Joel Radford

In the last few articles we’ve been looking at how best to witness to people of false religions. Today I want to tell you to make sure you get your definitions right with people of false religions. One of the big problems with witnessing to people of false religions is a language problem. In most […]

Love people of false religions

by Joel Radford

Last week we began looking at how best to witness to people of false religions. Today I want to tell you to love people of false religions. When you talk to people of false religions it is all too easy to get angry with them. After all, they are denying the truths that you consider […]

Tell the truth to people of false religions

by Joel Radford

Over the last few months we’ve been looking at the differences between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. To finish the series I want to give a few tips on how to witness to people of other religions. Today I want to focus on being honest […]

A fundamental difference between Confucianism and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we will end our series by looking at Confucianism. Confucius (552-479BC) was born into a poor Chinese family. He taught and edited Chinese classical writings and his disciples collected his sayings together […]

A fundamental difference between Freemasonry and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we look at Freemasonry. The origins of Freemasonry are probably in the twelfth century when some English masons founded a fraternity to guard the secrets of their craft and settle disputes. Today […]

A fundamental difference between Scientology and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we look at Scientology. Scientology is a relatively new religion. It was founded by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard in the 20th century. Scientology has often come to the forefront of Western attention through […]

A fundamental difference between Baha’ism and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we look at the Baha’ism World Faith. The founder of the Baha’i Faith was a young Muslim from Iran known as Mirza’ Ali Muhammed (1819-50). He believed that he was a divine […]