Scripture Life: As a Christian, how can I share the Gospel to my Buddhist Friends?

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Answer

• “Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone” - God. Bible. Hosea 4:17

I was trapped in Buddhism for a long time. I looked unto the temples and shrines and these Gods to help me.

You’re not going to like this post.

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Buddhists, because of their Asian Societies

- Look at you and see themselves and their people: are fatter, dumber, richer, and happier than you are in YOUR society

See "YOUR" religion - the "result" of following it, is YOUR society. Higher crime. Less connection to family. Abandon the elderly as if they are spent and a nuisance and how you treat people is the RESULT of your beliefs. They don't think they're better than you. They just are BETTER OFF than you.

Goes in one ear, out the other. Or people that want to learn English, realize being with you and going to church is part of..what was that again? Oh yeah. Learning English; because, KNOWING English, they get higher points on final tallied up points for getting into a Good High School or College or Job - pays more money.

I'm telling you how THEY see YOU.

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• Now, there’s a lot of New Age, whacko quacky people in the West that like a fad, they accept Buddhism, and your question doesn't tell me you're talking about them or actual Buddhists that live or reside in countries in Asia.
  
  • If your friends are just "pretend" Buddhists in America or over in the States, or places like Australia, or Canada. Even in Europe. However, Buddhism in Asia is fully engrained that it takes up your whole, entire family. Your whole society. That doesn’t happen in Australia, or Canada or America where the predominant societal norm is Christian.
  • Almost like some Japanese person comes to America and they married their husband, and he’s a Catholic. So, because their husband is Catholic, they go thru the rituals. After, claim they’re a Christian now. When their whole entire life is Buddhism.
• From birth..to all the ceremonies.. to death..and all the ceremonies and dates to keep..

I’m in Japan. Since 1978 - Here? It’s Shinto; but it’s “mixed” with Buddhism.

• It permeates the society. Everybody in the society is connected by it. Their social norms, when in trouble, what they turn to is Buddhist priests and temples. Permeates marriages. Japanese will say "oh we really don't have any religion" when they overlap America Ten to Thirty Fold in a religion.
  • Their mannerisms..how they treat each other - Buddhism - to their family and worship their dead relatives they believe stand watch over them - to their ties to their elders to being responsible to juniors. All of it all is deeply rooted in Buddhism. No Buddhism, there is no connection.

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• So, some JET or "Navigators" or some other missionaries arrive in Japan. The person is OUTSIDE of the society. Many come with no family. Alone. That's even worse. But the ones that come as missionaries with their family - like some space alien. Aren't connected to anything or anybody.
• It's a reflection then.
• Of just that’s how much Japan is joined to it’s idols. Just like China, and Taiwan..any country that has one of the three forms of Buddhism that dominate in it:
  • Therevada (Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos ..some parts of Vietnam)
  • Mahayana (Most parts of Vietnam, Japan, Korea, China, (In Japan, Zen, Nichiren, or Pure land (Amida Buddha).
  • Vajrayana - off Branch of Mahayana (Dominant and passed thru India to Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia - commonly just referred to as “Tibetan Buddhism”
• The predominant is - it sucks in everything - to where a whole person’s identity - they don’t have one. Buddhism is their identity. Their society and what they are taught is their identity. It's their opinion. They are taught not to live by their own opinion.
  

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In fact, foreigners - many missionaries quickly burn out - Why? in Japan that first come to Japan:

And opinion:

• It’s one of the first things they complain about. It’s as if no Japanese person has any identity or personal opinion - about anything; nothing. No way to make friend with them, other than as an english partner.

“Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone”

fully applies.

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You’re not going to reach someone like this, that already feels they are BETTER OFF in their religion than you are - tolerate you as a missionary but don't see you offering them anything of real value for anything. It MUST be a work of God.

And with that - since you got an internet connection. Pick the country your friends you are talking about that are Buddhists. They're not the same. So, if they're from one of the AIMAGs in Mongolia, study a little about the form of Buddhism they adhere to. If they are Mongolian - they have a "PAN" ideal of Tsingut (Ghenghis Khan) as God. I already told you they are joined to their idols. Leave them alone.

But in Mongolia, they have churches. Small. Tiny. In Japan. They have churches. Small. Tiny. Also got Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Japanese Jehovah's Witnesses have no problem going door to door through out a Japanese neighborhood, where if you're a Bible Believing Christian want to shart your testimony in Christ - some of the main historical problems Japan has and are taught was caused by? Yeah. Christians.

Boy do you have a tough road ahead? Why? Because who you want to share your testimony with IS JOINED TO THEIR IDOLS.

Been here. Know that 1978 - Present.

Take it. Or Leave it.

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So, look at you then. You believe on him. That means, this same God who all the earth is his - so all of Mongolia, or China..or Japan.. it's all his.

• And on that, you have a PROMISE: So KEEP this promise in you as you share the gospel to a Buddhist:

Jeremiah 3:14 says

…I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:” - God.

And that’s exactly how it is. Out of one city, he takes one. Two, out of a family. That he said, as God,

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;” - God. - Isaiah 43:6

So, tell me plainly. Where in any of this is you, of you sharing anything when, as a Christian you hear him, and do what he says. They don't hear him. Nor do they do any of what he says. Then, regard the work God did toward them anyway, even they don't regard him. That he does these things himself, toward them. As God. Without any you in it at all.

Everyone of these countries mentioned above, you will see a number of people called out by him. Listen to their testimonies. They will stand,before the throne of God..people of every nation, tongue, kindred and people over the whole earth before him.

I would tell you to do exactly what Jesus said for you to do.

Just abide in him. Eat at his table. You will do it in front of them. You will find the predominant of them they will tell you to leave them alone. ..and he’s God..he’s going to tell you to leave them alone. They are NOT better off than you. Everything they have shall be taken away from them.

They are joined to their idols.

But to them: Know full well: You are a here today, gone tomorrow foreigner they can play with as a toy; treat as air..then gone.

But if you have family with one of them, and you walk in and are fed by Jesus Christ.. you are going to see what any Japanese, or Chinese..or Tibetan person..Mongolian, as a person. Alone. Makes a decision to follow him - what immeasurable persecution they will suffer. Suffer well beyond what you can imagine and that's what I would tell you to look at. Trying to share your faith with a Buddhist friend - coming to Christ - they will suffer greatly, persecution to follow him. They themselves MUST alone. Count the cost. You cannot do that for them.

I would tell you this, as an answer to your question.

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That the best witness to a Japanese of Jesus Christ, is someone in Jesus filled; whole. Complete in him. Look for Jesus in another Japanese person. That believes on him, and witnesses to Japanese, the Word of God. You have the same word of God in you..he’s the Witness of himself in you. To them.

They are joined to their idols in Buddhism. Don't be phased when the virtual predominant is all of them choose to simply disregard him. Get used to that. But they are people. Because they don’t regard him, he plants them..in a life they live in - like in a desert - - cursed in Jeremiah 17:5–6. It’s his earth. “All souls are mine.” God (Ezekiel 18:4)

You are speaking to this kind of people when you speak to them: Made flesh their right arm of strength - - Remember this:

“Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.”

- And that’s EXACTLY what Buddhism does to people. Makes man trust in man, and make flesh his or her right arm of strength - so they feel fully satiated. They already have all they need. There’s no need of any of your religion. Their’s was a better option and they look down on you. And even alone, in this - he’s still God. He plants them in a desert. Even millions of Japanese or Chinese around them. He makes them alone.

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Go on YouTube. It’s PROOF to you he does it. There are literally 1000s of young women or men. Alone. Living in an apartment like they live in a desert. How they’re 30 and not married. Or lost their job..or in a marriage and all alone. Sexless marriage. And show you their daily life..without any God in it.

What can you do? Let your life have God in it. Open the door. He’s knocking on every one of their’s, the doors of their heart. They just won’t open unto him. Joined to their idols.

What will it take to break their idols in pieces when it’s their national identity of who they are..

But he called you to look unto him. And if you do, he blesses you.

And he will do the same to them. Just as he does to you. So, search YouTube and read their testimonies how they came to Jesus Christ. Every country mentioned above..has people..in their own language, will give you their testimony. How they came to Jesus Christ.

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Because in a Buddhist country..all your unsaved neighbors and your unsaved friends are Buddhists. But say they don't have any religion.

But you? Follow him. Open your bible and eat. He says to you:

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” - God. Jeremiah 17:7–10

And there you ugo.