FAILING CHRISTIAN CHURCHES CONVERTING TO PAGAN HINDU TEMPLES
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Recently, the Times of India reported that the
Ahmedabad-based cult, Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan has bought a
30-year-old church in Portsmouth, Virginia with plans to convert it into
a Swaminarayan temple of pagan worship. The Portsmouth church is not
the first to be converted into a Hindu center of pagan idolatry. This
seems to be the start of a troublesome trend among failing churches in
the United States.
This latest conversion of the Portsmouth church is only one of five
other recent conversions from a Christian church to a pagan temple here
in the United States by the Hindu cult Swaminarayan Sansthan. Other
converted churches are in California, Louisville, Pennsylvania, Los
Angeles, and Ohio. This troubling trend is not limited to only here in
the United States; it is happening abroad as well. Swaminarayan Gadi
Sansthan has converted other churches internationally, one in London and
another near Bolton in Manchester UK. Additionally the group is
working on an acquisition of a church in Toronto, Canada.
There is an ever-growing number of pagan Hindu worshipers in the
United States. For example, Virginia has a population of more than
10,000 Gujaratis. While we as Christians should be alarmed at the
conversion of churches to pagan Hindu worship centers, we need to
remember that this can present an opportunity to reach the lost. This
prospect of hope comes in Christ and readily provides a mission field to
preach the Gospel to those lost in the pagan cult of Hinduism.
While the field is ripe for the harvest the question has to be asked,
why are these supposed “Christian” churches selling their buildings to
pagan entities? Where are these churches Christian ethics and morals?
While yes, a church may be failing, does that make it right for a church
to sell to just anyone who offers the right amount of money? No,
churches should not be selling to anyone who is willing to buy. Just
because your churched failed and you need to sell does not mean you
forsake your moral and spiritual commitment to the body of Christ at
large or your duty to honor God.
These churches
that are selling to this pagan Hindu cult are inviting the devil into there
backyard to play and shake hands with their community. Even in selling, these
churches owe it to the community, the body of believers, and above all to
Christ to do the right thing and not sell to groups or businesses that openly are
against Christianity.
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SEE:
https://satyavijayi.com/virginia-church-all-set-to-be-transformed-into-a-hindu-temple/
EXCERPTS:
It is the sixth church in the US and the ninth across the world to be
turned into a Swaminarayan temple by Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan based in
Maninagar, Ahmedabad.
Apart from Virginia, churches in California, Luiseville, Pennsylvania,
Los Angeles and Ohio in the US have been transformed into temples by the
sect. Similarly in the UK, two churches have been coverted into temples
in London and Bolton near Manchester. The sect has also acquired a
125-year-old property in Toronto, Canada.