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EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES TO NEW RELIGIONS

Announcing EMNR’s national conference on

Reaching People in Cults and New Religions: A Renewed Commitment to Missions and Scholarship

at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, on Feb. 15–17, 2001. Click here for more details!

EMNR Summit Conference Schedule

New and Alternative Religious Movements - Some Perspectives of a Missiologist

by David J. Hesselgrave

Mission Statement

EMNR was founded in 1982 as a fellowship of evangelical Christian ministries in North America to the cults and new religions. Our goals are to:

Clarify essential principles of doctrine, ethics, and ministry by which movements may be distinguished as sub-Christian, cultic, or non-Christian.

Evaluate the doctrine, ethics, and ministerial practice of controversial groups.

Recognize the qualified and credentialed ministries reaching the unreached in the new religions and cults.

Maintain worthy theological, ethical, and missiological standards among members.

Encourage mutual understanding and cooperation among evangelical Christian agencies.

Assist in avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort among these evangelical mission agencies.

Stimulate research and writing on neglected aspects of strategies, methods, and materials important to reaching these unreached people groups.

Provide centralized storage of reliable and relevant information for pre-evangelism, evangelism, and rehabilitation of people from nonevangelical worldviews and ways of life.

Recommend to the public, churches, and schools those agencies and materials which meet these standards and may help as a protective to involvement with a non-Christian or inauthentically Christian religious movement.

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