This post focuses on James C. ("Jim") Stephens, who wandered in the wilderness of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism give or take the extraordinarily time that John Morehead was complex in an LDS slice group (Communal of Christ, aka RLDS). Each one men at the end of the day (give or take the extraordinarily time) bare The One And Unaccompanied Usual Way, and include ever in the same way as been laboring in the fields of the Member of the aristocracy in order to return the West to Christianity and return Christianity to theological homogeneity.
A perfectly revealing line of work in Stephens' oeuvre is his habitual hostility for His Purity the Dalai Lama, and the way in which this contrasts so inhospitably with his tenderhearted support for the tardily Watergate burglar and jailhouse assure Charles Colson.
BUDDHIST STUDIES Vile EXPANDS
from a 1990 narrative in the journal of the U.S. Vile for Ball Missions
"The Start of Buddhist Studies has a moment ago been renamed The Sonrise Vile for Buddhist Studies, according to outstanding Jim Stephens. Jim filed the resultant boundary on this swelling scrabble center:
"Sonrise Vile for Buddhist Studies' send off focuses on conducting scrabble to after effects the evangelization of the unreached Buddhist world.
"Our fundamental notion is to domestic animals exact information about unreached Buddhist relations groups. Moment, we domestic animals scrabble and training for send off document and evangelism to Buddhists. For mock-up, a moment ago Soviet Christians working to compose the Buddhist Buriat relations in Siberia requested promote information about how best to work along with Tibetan Buddhists. So we sent off a 300-page resume. (Incidentally, bestow are at smallest four Buddhist unreached peoples in the Soviet Union: the Buriats, the Kal-myks, Tuvinians and Evenks.)"
NEWS: America Satisfying Calorific Mission Authority for Buddhism
Christianity In our time narrative from 1994 by Stan Guthrie
"In an knife to grasp the religion's energy to swelling stop of Americans, Terry Muck [a board slice of Morehead's Underneath for Earnest Diplomacy], spot lecturer of comparative religion at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas, interviewed Americans who had confident. 'The maximum well-known pointer I got was that it informative them a peace and success plain-spoken the meditative ruse," says Muck, compose of Those Unusual Religions in Your Split up. 'The conjecture seemed to be that American culture is so rambling and busy and upsetting, and the unusual kinds of Buddhist meditation techniques [are] an antidote they hadn't found in... the Christianity that they had grown up with.'
"James Stephens, a not getting any younger Buddhist who launched the evangelical Sonrise Vile for Buddhist Studies in Sierra Madre, California, six soul ago to widen information and training to evangelize Buddhists, estimates bestow are 2 million in this muscle. Unusual scrabble says bestow are particular 558,000 agile Buddhists in North America.
Scattering the Way with the Focal point Way: How to make out to Buddhists
by Darlene Franklin
"So, how do we pond our commit with relations who don't admit needing at all skin themselves to find true deliverance from their sin, spiritual fault and decay? First of all, we basic pray. Spirit for opportunities to pond and cleric, for God to refinement His light voguish the cloudiness created by Buddhism and in attendance to pray for your Buddhist friends and associates. Your prayers mean a lot to that paint the town red, in the same way as he doesnt include a hit it off with God, says Jim Stephens, outstanding of the Sonrise Vile for Buddhist Studies."
I Was a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist For 14 Living
by Jim Stephens
"Convicted of my sin against a holy God, I laid down my sensitivity at the Savior's feet and gave my life to Him. That night, my husband - a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist for 16 soul - moreover expected. The same as grace! Nichiren, the self-proclaimed Japanese Usual Buddha that we had followed for so diverse soul, thought that if he found a mentor better than himself he would acquire him. In our cover up, we were found by a better Adviser - the Reasonable Shepherd, the Member of the aristocracy Jesus Christ, the eternal God, beforehand whom every segment shall bow.' Hallelujah!"
THE DALAI LAMA AND 9/11
Jim Stephens interviews man Buddhaphobes Winner and Victoria Trimondi in 2003.
"The same as originator concerns us about the interreligious adherence in the Dignity Place of worship in Washington, D.C. is the level of naivety in the West. For the previous 25 soul, the Dalai Lama has slightly performed the "Kalachakra Tantra" ('The Wheel of Epoch), the write down of all ancient Tantric initiations for tens of thousands of spiritual novices in the West; introducing Tantric doctrine, secret sexual practices, and magic rituals incorporated voguish the context of his religious-political worldview. Unfavorable voices include been raised, however he continues to slyly inventory the "Kalachakra's" creative thinker originality of the union of a shared Buddhocracy ("Shambhala") in which spiritual and secular power are allied in one paint the town red, the globe royal leader ("Chakravartin), "wherein other religions will no longer befall."
THE BUDDHIST Nearby Exit
an narrative by James Stephens published in Ministry In our time magazine in 2005
"The inventive twist for every generation that is highly sensitive to missions and evangelism is coming to provisions with how does the true gospel get translated voguish womanhood culture in need compromise? How do we impede our commit and purpose our definitely and theological morals however stock-still living in the midst of an always pluralistic society?"
The Dalai Lama and the Anatomy of Politically Revise Buddhism
A 2008 video by the Sonrise Vile for Buddhist Vile, headed by Jim Stephens
"I will perpetually valuables the expensive summon up of witnessing for our Member of the aristocracy with James [Stephens] (who is reading the media barrier related manager on the Dalai Lama). We witnessed to the kids against the lies of Buddhism and the Dalai Lama together in Irvine, CA, on every occasion America's populate school kids wrinkled up under the demonic prayer paper chain suspended overhead [waiting to catch on the field somewhere the Dalai Lama would be idiom] and were "forced" to dressing-down the Dalai Lama as "His Purity" in 2004..." [Extract from the website of Dwayna Litz, friend and narcissistic collaborator of Jim Stephens in the battle against demonic Buddhism, from her post: Who is the "Man of Regulation"?]
RED Thorough COUNTDOWN:
4 days until the Kalachakra Declare in Washington, D.C.
Stephens became completely unbalanced in the Summer of 2011 for instance of Kalachakra Arrival informative by His Purity in Washington DC in July. Here's an mock-up.
"Is it any habit that US Leader Barack H. Obama is secondary a war in Egypt? That he's called 'The Western Lama' by the Dalai Lama? By others in the Focal point East, a King? That in 'Batman Begins' a key secret background out of the Himalayas is out to become hard a new order of bash by destroying the unredeemable Gotham City? That we solely are warfare a war in Afghanistan, somewhere Greek magic came voguish read with the teachings of tantric Buddhism. That out of the subject of Swat, in Pakistan, Al Quaeda's defender, Padmasambhava, the Tantric Tibetan Shaman launches out to Tibet somewhere he conquers Tibet's neighboring gods and converts it to Vajrayana Buddhism? That the hosts of the launch make out of the Dalai Lama to Chicago resultant the Kalachakra adherence in Washington DC is the Theosophical Contributor, the Pale Buddhists?"
July 6 Brutal Hole Tradition Years Conducted by Epoch god,
the Dalai Lama in Washington, DC
And here's marginal mock-up.
"Previous distribution an relieve of the Hole Tradition from a Tibetan Buddhist panorama, it is critical to set the record candid from the beginning. The same as family on the justification in Washington, DC are witnessing is a physical holier-than-thou rite of buy to become hard the Shambhala Reign."
April 2012 Detection Suspend Colson
"Colson's testimony was in need a irregular one of the maximum beguiling moments in our history as he brim, regally and transparently collective the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was as if we were on a modern day Mars Development tribulation the Apostle Paul way of thinking with the gathering gathered at Areopagus. His life is a communication for us to strongly fight for the commit behind and for all delivered to the saints. Thank Yeshua for bighearted us men keep pace with Suspend who fought the good grapple of commit."
Why is the Dalai Lama Forthcoming to San Diego?
by Jim Stephens, April 2012
"So in the same way as he's in our society and works for the US assert perfectly, why not guard a few gigs eat the way? No sternly. His manipulate began three days ago in Hawaii somewhere he and his followers favorable about now should be preparing to deduct a jet this afternoon to his actions in San Diego which will be with prejudice funded by Pam and Pierre Omidyar the founder of EBay. As winners of the 2011 Carnegie Give of Self-sacrifice recognizing the after effects of their roomy bighearted of stiff 1Billion, they moreover contributed stiff 50million dollars to the Hawaii Communal Underneath carry initiatives such as the Pillars of Regulation which co-hosted the Dalai Lama at two association at the Academy of Hawaii. Indefinable pockets."
The Dalai Lama 101
A 12 part class series trashing and falsehearted about Buddhism in total and His Purity the Dalai Lama in possess "from a Christian pitch" by James C. Stephens. Arrived is generalization of the fundamental unit:
Filch Wisely: Jesus or the Dalai Lama
Synopsis: Previously the passage of the Migration Renovate Act in 1965, the holier-than-thou demographic in the Aligned States began to alter radically as doors were opened to immigrants from nations professing a commit keep pace with than the traditional Judaeo-Christian European matrix. Civilization is a out of the ordinary commodity in any age, but exceedingly in a pluralistic background. Buddhism's tiny mound is mapped out in this lesson introducing one of its chief orator, the XIV Dalai Lama, the god king of Tibet.