{"id":15679,"date":"2017-08-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/08\/23\/five-truths-accidentally-revealed-by-an-american-student-on-a-christian-mission-trip-to-karnataka\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:00:00","slug":"five-truths-accidentally-revealed-by-an-american-student-on-a-christian-mission-trip-to-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/08\/23\/five-truths-accidentally-revealed-by-an-american-student-on-a-christian-mission-trip-to-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Truths Accidentally Revealed by an American Student on a Christian Mission Trip to Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

INDIA, August 18, 2017 (Hindu Post): American students on short-term mission trips to Bharat in pursuit of the Great Commission (the Biblical mandate to make disciples of all nations) is a phenomenon that has grown rapidly recently. Where do these students go? Well, most of them come to countries which fall in the 10\/40 window – a rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. The 10\/40 Window includes the majority of the world’s Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims – over 4 billion “unreached” people. Missionaries prefer to focus on converting Hindus, tribals and Buddhists<\/p>\n

Now, a routine article (https:\/\/www.mississippivalleypublishing.com\/daily_democrat\/news\/local\/carter-makes-first-mission-trip-to-india\/article_b2f53cb8-8139-11e7-85a6-2bdd7b882d78.html) in a nondescript US paper, Fort Madison Daily Democrat, published from the Mid-Western state of Iowa has revealed five interesting insights about how missionaries operate in and perceive Bharat. The article reveals routine abuse of India’s visa regulations, a decided focus on Hindus as easy targets, use of humanitairan service to evangelize and the selling of Christianity as the route to prosperity.<\/p>\n

One quote from the Fort Madison Daily Democrate article: <\/p>\n

” ‘It’s not illegal to be a Christian’ in the southern part of India, Carter said, ‘but Hindus have a problem with Americans going around sharing the Gospel.’ So the missionary couple have been there on a ‘tourist visa’ – for the last 30 years. ‘I thought it was pretty cool,’ Carter said, ‘that God protected them so they could get away with it.’ ‘<\/p>\n

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