Voodoo, Spiritual Warfare, & Other Challenges to the Church's Mission in Africa | Rev. James May
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
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Yeah that’s my Dad. He’s pretty cool.
Enjoyed listening to this interview and learning more about you that I didn’t know. I love you Dad!
Give your dad a hug for us.
I’m in the US but I wish they’d send missionaries out here to my rural area.
I love you too!
@ y’all are so sweet it’s gonna give me cavities haha. In the world today, especially way out in the sticks, primarily connected to the rest of society by the internet and bumping into neighbors at our one gas station. It is easy to sometimes feel like the only one left, videos and comments like these remind me that we are not alone.
Thank you.
Great interview.
Pastor May and Lutherans in Africa are awesome.
Schulz interview would be stupendous.
Great interview! Pastor May really gives us "American Lutherans" a lot to think about. Praise be to God for your ministry, and continuing prayers.
One of your best interviews yet. Pastor May has been given a brilliant mind by our Lord.
Thank you, Kathy!
I was amazingly surprised when I hear rvd. James mentioning his time in Greece, in Thessaloniki, just 60 km away from my home. We are the only confessional lutheran family in the country and for us was such a joy to learn that in this city, our Thessaloniki, rvd. James first met his wife and this girl helped hime convert to christianity and, most especially, confessional lutheranism. I sent a message to him, in Facebook. I want to talk to him.
That's such an amazing story
God bless!!
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Absolutely , less fewer baptised and confirmed in America
1 Corinthians 15:57 KJV
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 11:28 KJV
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Psalms 92:1-5 KJV
1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Psalms 92:1-5 KJV
1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
I had the pleasure of learning from Dr. Gregory Schulz at CUW before he was unprofessionally (and potentially illegally) dismissed from his professorship. He would be an amazing individual to interview!
Great interview; praise the Lord for the work being done in Kenya!
Eye-opening....
Great interview!
Great to have P. May! His ministry is wonderful
Excited to listen, what a great guest!
You should interview Rev Dan Torkelson from Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Madison WI
Great interview
Any possibility of getting you guys on Substack also?
In Johann Gerhard Theological Commonplaces on Creation and Predestination page 25 2/3rds the way down the page indented it says ""it is quite certain that Augustine felt that angels AND demons were endowed with bodies". You said people are oppressed (outside of) by demons and can be processed (inside of) by demons, not baptized people of God. I would like to know if you share Augustine's opinion, cause it would explain a lot?
Angels certainly have bodies, they show up with swords at times in the Bible but notice how they can be in middle of the road and a donkey might see them but a false prophet doesn’t. Remember 2 Kings 2 when Elisha was surrounded but the enemy army didn’t see the angels all around them.
Remember that there are earthly bodies and spiritual bodies. The rules of physics are different for angels and demons are fallen angels.
Oppression and possession are both described in the Bible. The Bible is clear about Jesus encountering the possessed (like legion) but we also have a description of oppression with King Saul in 1 Samuel 16.
We read about demons cast out of the possessed but David playing the harp (and possibly singing Psalms) helped.
@@nemoexnuqual3643 are you a pastor? what I have experienced is more like doppelgangers, but I know the person well enough that their personality is different.
@@lisajones7756 I’m not a pastor at all, I just had a similar question with mine.
He makes great points concerning Islam and how to reach them. But his views are skewed in the sense that God works through ordinary means. We are taught this in the Lutheran church. We do our work in our vocations for one. Is Islamic terrorism then to be ONLY preached at? Military action against the evils of Islamic terrorism is nothing less than God working through those in authority as we are taught in Romans 13: 1-4.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't preach The Gospel to Islam as the first importance. But to say that we should be pacifist and tell our government not to use the sword is a dereliction of their responsibility to protect us. They wouldn't be performing their vocation.
In the same vein, the Crusades (not perfect) not only a RESPONSE to HUNDREDS of years of Islamic aggression and imperialism on previously Christian lands they also subjugated and actively persecuted Christianity in their own lands. The Crusades were actions taken by governing authorities in RESPONSE to Muslim aggression and oppression. Chrostiandom stayed it's hand for hundreds of years. He's simply wrong on this.
The only truth to his point is that they went too far and did commit atrocities against Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land. However, we are also looking at warfare through the lenses of today's standards.
We really need into some vague language in determining a “just war,” as well as difficulties when soldiers are drafted into questionable wars.
The Crusades IMHO were justified, especially at first which this pastor himself said. I personally think the crusades were mostly justified, but criticize the Pope (a Lutheran criticism of the Pope… no way!) for saying that fighting in the crusades would result in the forgiveness of sins, when he should have directed the people to Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and recruited to help your brother Christians. I also criticize missions to obtain relics. Going to stop Christians from being dragged behind Muslim hoses by their intestines is as just a war as you get.
Remember Luther said that to watch a man being murdered by robbers and doing nothing makes you guilty. However we are as Hebrews 12:14 said to try to make peace and as Jesus said “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Jesus also said to sell your cloak and buy a sword and the advice to soldiers in the epistles is to not extort money.
Like so many places in the Bible there is a razor thin balance.
Hi J-Chi. I believe the blood of the martyrs also speaks as a testimony, as it did in the Early Church when the Romans were persecuting Christians. The most powerful weapon is the Word of God. What I see and believe is that going on the offense with earthly weapons creates more Muslims. It doesnt convert hearts. The Word of God converted the heart of the murderous Saul, who converted to St. Paul. When I was a church planter in Burkina Faso, which is 80% Muslim, we did face challenges and threats but continual preaching of the Word converted thousands of hearts in the face of persecution. Burkinabes have seen terrorist attacks and have turned away from Islam but the lack of preaching the Word does not give them the opportunity to see the light.
I suppose you could think of it this way, should Christians go on the offensive and take up arms to kill homosexuals and abortionists? In the US, abortionists have killed 60-80 MILLION babies since 1973. That is FAR more than the number that Muslims have killed. The core of the problem is in the heart.
Having said that, I would not condemn someone who took up arms to defend the innocent from violent attacks but I think it is a sin to take up arms to go on the offense to kill persecutors. We need to put preaching the Word as the primary task of the church. We are not doing enough.