Article: An Encounter With a Mother-God Cult Evangelist by Jordan Standridge (original source here)

I’m sure you’ve heard of it by now, it’s called the Mother-God cult. The official name is the World Mission Society Church of God. I’ve had my share of run-ins with them over the years. It is a religion that started in South Korea, and now has more than 2.7 million members. I had a memorable conversation with one of these members that I wanted to share with you.

I was about to evangelize on a college campus, when I passed a young man with Bible open, talking to a student. As I walked by, he was saying something about God being a mother, so I barged in and started a conversation with the guy, partly out of curiosity and partly to get him to stop talking to that poor student.

After a few minutes of conversation, I simply asked what has become my go to question when talking to anyone involved in a cult.

“Ok, let’s say you’re right; please tell me what I need to do to be saved right now?!”

With a look of fearful shock, he just stood there speechless.

I said, “Come on, man! I could die today! The Bible says today is the day of salvation!” (2 Cor.6:2)

He responded. “It’s not that easy!”

After what had to be at least 20 seconds of him standing there in shock, I said, “Please, you’re here, I assume, to help people, right? How do I get saved? I could die today! Give me something!”

At this point, I was determined not to say a word and to wait until he finally spoke up, and after a long time he finally said, “You have to take the Passover.”

“Ok!” I said, “I’ll take it right now.”

He said “It’s not that easy! You have to take it at my church!”

At this point, I was committed. “Ok let’s drive there now. Hopefully I don’t die on the way.”

At which point he shook his head and said, “It’s not that easy, you can only take it once a year. On April 8th.”

I was intrigued. “April 8th? How’d you come up with that date?”

He said, “God told me.”

I said, “Wait a second here, didn’t you tell me there were 2.7 million of you? Did you all hear audibly at the same time? How did you all agree on it? Did you all show up together in a room and count 1, 2, 3 and all shout ‘April 8th’ together?”

That’s when I realized what he was saying. He was talking about Jang Gil-Ja.

Jang Gil-Ja is a 75-year-old, Korean woman who claims to be God the Mother, and to have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Bible. Continue reading →