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Missionary Threat (Rick Ross): David Clark Responds To Rick Ross and "The Missionary Threat" Booklet



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  1. Missionary Threat (Rick Ross): Evaluating The Missionary Threat - Introduction
  2. Missionary Threat (Rick Ross): David Clark Responds To Rick Ross and "The Missionary Threat" Booklet


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I always maintained my orthodox Christian identity with Ellen and she sought comfort from me, recognizing that I was truly Christian or she would not have opened up to me in the first place. Although I recognized her plight, I would never deny the fundamentals of my faith in the context of any exit counseling. It is a shame and a disgrace that the organization is now a major grievance and stumbling block in her life toward reaching out in the name of Christianity and ultimately this is between her and God.

The final paragraph and ending of the Missionary Threat Booklet captures the flavor and impact that Rick really wants to make. In conclusion Mr. Ross refocuses his opening agenda

"Some may become captured within the driftnets of fundamentalist and evangelical missionaries. Others may be stalked by predatory sharks proselytizing as `messianic Jews,' or `Hebrew Christians'.

I will not burden you further with the redundant and painfully obvious two by four Rick insists on using. I would like to close with his professional designation at the bottom of the page. "Rick Ross is an Exit Counselor/ Deprogrammer based in Phoenix, Arizona.' After several years at least, the Exit Counseling community has made it consensually and consistently clear that voluntary exit counseling and deprogramming are, by their essential nature, two different disciplines. The one is not the other. Mr. Ross refers to exit counseling, then labels it a deprogramming, which the cults and their apologists will take advantage of for their purposes and agendas and will only complicate the troubled waters Rick refers to in his booklet. My final concern is similar to Rick's after reading "The Missionary Threat" that “…there are many Jews swimming in troubled waters."

- David Clark Responds To Rick Ross And "The Missionary Threat" Booklet. © Copyright 1995, David Clark. This document was first published in 1995. It is reproduced at ApologeticsIndex.org by the kind permission of David Clark. Hyperlinks in this item were added by Apologetics Index.

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