{"id":1662,"date":"2010-04-26T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2010-04-26T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:43:36","slug":"another-moonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Another Moonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nApril 2nd, I was reading the book &quot;Why I left CCM&quot; during lunch time at the Grand Central basement food court, two members of the Unification Church approached me. Their ice-breaker was: What do you think is the cause of world problems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI was aware that Christian Cults like the Moonies do not concern themselves about the sacrificial salvation of Christ. Therefore their &quot;christian&quot; value concerns only the teaching of Christ, of the Bible, pertaining to how to life a &quot;good&quot; life. Thus, they value teachings over sacrifice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis time, unlike before with another, Dan and YongSoon (both apparently Koreans as many of the members are), are more on listening than speaking. So I ended up doing much talking. Which led me to think if I should have used responsive communication rather than&nbsp; lecture style.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEvangelically speaking, I would think I should have concentrated on the issue of justification in all fairness, leading them to think about what it truly means to be justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2nd, I was reading the book &quot;Why I left CCM&quot; during lunch time at the Grand Central basement food court, two members of the Unification Church approached me. Their ice-breaker was: What do you think is the cause of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1662\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}