Manifesto Poster
We're turning the lion chaser's manifesto into a poster and bookmark. We'll make them downloadable ASAP.
All of the resources at chasethelion.com are open-source freebies. Really want to resource churches that are doing a series based on In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day.
All of the resources at chasethelion.com are open-source freebies. Really want to resource churches that are doing a series based on In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day.
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That is sooooo cool. Can't wait to get mine.
Looks great...we finished the series just a bit too early (2 weeks ago); but I had up our own and handed out. Just a note - people LOVED the series and were pumped. We got a bass player for the worship team, because he said he'd been making excuses for a while why he couldn't play, and decided that was one of his lions God was calling him to chase. Exciting to see people stepping up (we need everybody in the game when you're a church plant of 50!) Thanks for the book & resources!
sorry...meant to say we "had MADE up our own"...
Paster Mark, I may be in a situation where I am in a "pit with a lion" right now. I would greatly appreciate your advice from your deep understanding of the bible and our relationship with Jesus. I recently spoke with a friend's husband whose a Presbyterian pastor and email a group called NIFCON, whose mission is to build develop loving relationships between Christians and other faiths. I am not sure if you know this organization and your thoughts on their validity would also be appreciate, but I am copying below, my email to them and your thoughts and reflects on my "lion" would be very grateful.
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Hello Ms. Mitchell and Ms. Amos,
I came upon your website and thought your organization may provide me the direction and resources I need. Though your mission is for the greater, worldly
understanding of other faiths with Christianity, I have a more microscopic venture in trying to bring and communicate between two differing faiths. I am a Christian and have be truly reborn for the last 5+ years. My fiancee has been raised in an evangelical non-denominational church all his life. I have attended only non-denominational churches since I was
reborn though I was christen and confirmed in a Lutheran church. I am Vietnamese and my family came to
the US in 1975 by the sponsorship of the Messiah Lutheran Church in Mankato, MN. However, though the
children (I am the youngest of 4) were raised in a Christian church, our parents were involved but only
to a point. Now at the age of 32, I am seeing that my mother has returned more strongly to her Buddhist roots and my Dad has always been agnostic. My recent
engagement has forced the issue of how to combine my Christian beliefs with those of my mother’s Buddhist faith. My mom believes in a “universal” God theory that all the different religions who worship one God are the same God. But she does not profess the need
for knowing Jesus Christ as our Savior and the one truth and only way to salvation.
In our culture, a ceremony of “prayer” at an alter to
our ancestors and presenting them foods and asking their spirit to come visit us is done on the deaths
and holidays. When I was reborn, I had not faced the contradiction of the ceremony to my faith in Christ.
To some it’s a symbol of idolatry and others it’s a negative means of bringing the enemy’s spirits into our homes. Since my fiancee and I are Christians we don’t plan to raise our children with these ceremonies but in my mother’s mind, if I ever say I refuse to
perform the ceremony, then I am being disrespectful of her and my ancestors, which seems limited in the way I can show that respect and a lack of respect for my own
beliefs. I certainly will not make her stop her traditions, but I have to respect my own faith and
honor God.
I hurt deeply inside trying to figure out this dilemma
since I risk losing a relationship with my family, which have been the core of my life until I found Jesus. Is there any compromise that can be true to our Father?
On the one hand I think that if I perform the ceremony, God knows my heart and it’s more ceremonial
than spiritual and my parents would still be happy. However, the other part of me feels that maybe God is asking me to make a great sacrifice in His honor by risking the lost of my family, much
like how Abraham had to take his favored son to the mountain to be killed as a sacrifice to God. I
yearn for some guidance and seeking in friends,pastors and now your organization to fairly see all
sides of the issues from all cultural and spiritual perspectives.
Any help, guidance, resources or advice you can share with me will be so gratefully accepted.
I thank you for your time. God Bless!
A-Chau Tran
Awesome, thanks so much!!
Mark,
We're going to do a "Chase the Lion" series next month. We start on March 11th. Can't wait to see how this affects our church. Thanks for making the resources available. I enjoyed the book and will likely be contacting you soon regarding a bulk order for this series.
Tally Wilgis
Focal Point Church
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