Brannon Howse: Aired January 7, 2013

Part Three on Passion 2013. Brannon’'s guest is Chris Rosebrough. Topic: Did the Passion 2013 conference convey a worldview of social justice, dominion theology, community and collective salvation and if so how? Topic: Why is Passion 2013 a perfect example of how the right and left are merging both politically and spiritually? Topic: One of the speakers at Passion 2013 was Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission. Hear from an article where one of the board of directors of International Justice Mission is quoted as saying: In my cultural context, the biggest religious problem is your karma: your karmic debt. What you sow, you reap. You come to this earth with a karmic account, then you die and you’re reincarnated, and that depends on how you’ve done in this life. When I read about Jesus’ death on the Cross, it wasn’t so much the sacrifice for sin that struck me as the sacrifice for karma. The Christians I met spoke of sin in this life, but that was meaningless to me. Karma was what mattered. So I decided, When they talk about sin, I think of karma, and I believe Jesus died for my karma, so I am going to accept him on those terms… We’ve produced a series of books and cds that connect with the South Asian experience. Fortunately, I was able to pay for publication, because in the early days, not many Christian publishers were willing to take on a book that talked about Jesus as the bodhisattva who fulfilled his dharma to pay for my karma to negate samsara and achieve nirvana! Topic: Brannon and Chris respond to the above reported comments.