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After a campus blitz of flyers and pamphlets promoting “Jesus Week,” Sims delivered his stirring testimony before hundreds in front of the Science Center to culminate the religious celebration...
...though every teacher has something to add to the torrent of messages urging the public to pray, pray, pray. This is a problem for Islamic students across the U.S. Not only do they have to worry about prejudice; now they must also try to tune out the references to Jesus from their teachers and fellow students. If school prayer is reinstated, Islamic (and other non-Christian) students will have a choice between hypocrisy and humiliation. ELIZABETH SZYPULSKI Clemson...
...followers in central China. The sect's emphasis on decentralized congregations launched a home-church movement that helped Christianity survive communist repression. Yet as Little Flock congregations became isolated, they splintered into separate groups. The Shouters, for instance, rewrote the Lord's Prayer to read simply, "Oh, Lord Jesus," and taught followers to holler the phrase while stamping their feet in unison. Other offshoots, like the Disciples, believe that the devil exists in all people?and can be beaten out of them...
...away. They talked about God for two hours that evening, and for longer on subsequent nights. Then the visitor arranged for a rare luxury?a car to drive Granny He to worship in someone's home. There, she and seven other believers sat facing the preacher. He said the Jesus of the Bible is the old one. The new Jesus has come, and she will destroy the earth. They sang hymns that the new savior had written to the tunes of familiar revolutionary ditties like Communist Party, My Loving Mama. Granny He returned four more times. On occasion, when...
...experience was a textbook piece of evangelism. The sect's most trusted members receive a 67-page missionary manual explaining the dos and don'ts of conversion. Do start slowly, lend money, convince converts that God's work is incomplete and, finally, that doomsday is coming and Jesus has arrived to complete that work. Don't tell them until they are firm believers that the new Jesus will destroy the Great Red Dragon, which in the Bible represents Satan but to Lightning represents China. And if anybody asks why the "all-powerful" new Jesus must hide from police, the answer...