Posted on 08/08/2014 7:44:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A person who has been born again is no longer his own. If He wants you to go, you go. It’s a high privilege to labor in His vineyard.
Ann simply doesn’t understand God’s sovereignty. Nothing in this life can happen to any man apart from God’s sovereign will. I highly recommend a TG4 sermon by David Platt from a few years ago called “Divine Sovereignty the Fuel of Death-Defying Missions.”
Here is a link to a snippet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEU628SoDPM
The description includes a link to the full sermon.
Do you realize that the Army and CDC is involved in all Ebola outbreaks in Africa?
Will we refuse to bring them to our special treatment center if they get Ebola or a similar disease that the treatment center was built for?
Yeah, he is probably deep inside her...
Is there a new push against Evangelical Christians?
“Crocodile Crock: Sir Elton Attacks Christian Missions—and We’re Paying for It!”
“”What is wholly offensive, however, is Sir Elton John’s attack on Christian missionaries is being funded by U.S. taxpayers—Us!—and distributed to the very nations that are in dire need of help. This Voice of America video is titled “AIDS 2014—Living in the Shadows.” It’s a series of stories of truly terrible treatment of people suffering from AIDS, or survivors whose family members died of AIDS. There’s nothing wrong with showing compassion for these desperate people.
There’s a lot wrong, however, with Elton John pushing the idea that the spread of AIDS is the fault of Christians, especially American Evangelicals, who have “targeted Africa for thirty years.”
(snip)
The world has just witnessed an amazing story of Christian missionaries facing death by Ebola for the sake of Christ. Dr. Kent Brantly and his colleague, Nancy Writebol, were airlifted from West Africa to Emory University to an isolation unit. Both of these Christian medical missionaries serve with Samaritan’s Purse, the aid organization founded by Dr. Franklin Graham. He’s the son of famed evangelist, Billy Graham.
Both of these missionaries risked death to treat victims of another deadly plague.
This Elton John attack video—promoted by the Obama administration—could not come at a worse time. Throughout Africa, the Mideast, and South Asia, Christians are suffering persecution worse than at any time since the eighth century. Daily, Christians are murdered, raped, tortured, and driven from their homes. They are ordered to convert to Islam, pay a jizya tax, or be killed.
In the face of this historic evil, the Obama administration’s record of muted response and a blind eye is a shameful one. But worst of all, when Christians are being attacked, the Government of the United States is weighing in with this bigoted video.
It seems the Obama administration’s foreign policy—which is in total meltdown—consists of making the culture war a world war. Sir Elton John’s participation in the Voice of America video is but the latest example of this administration’s hostility to Christian practice and belief.””
She’s stoopit...
There is no shortage of Christian Churches and evangelical missions in America’s inner cities.
Ann Coulter is an idiot. Don’t be so quick to hang on to her inappropriately short skirt tails
The people he helped save would disagree.
-couch potato
I agree also.
There are plenty of poor, and sick people in the US these folks could help.
They made a choice to go to Africa, then end up sick.
and have to spend a lot of moolah to get back to the US to be treated.
good post
he felt compelled to go there,
where do you go??
I read what she wrote about the missionaries and it disgusted me. She doesn't have a clue what she's talking about.
American Christians realize the need for medical missionary work in Third World countries and they work to fill this need. The medical care they provide is already available to EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the United States.
Ann is into Mitt and Krispy Kreme. Here’s just another example of how her mental driveway doesn’t always reach the street.
They are there and have been for decades. One example of many is the Atlanta Mission:
“Atlanta Mission transforms, through Christ, the lives of those facing homelessness.
Atlanta Mission is the city’s largest and longest-running provider of services to homeless men, women and children. Established in 1938, Atlanta Mission provides emergency shelter, temporary shelter, recovery programming, job attainment and transitional housing for more than 950 men, women and children daily.”
Many churches in Atlanta conduct outreach and do mission work in the city all the time, as do churches and Christian organizations in cities and towns all over the USA.
God’s call isn’t a choice.
The argument about whether Ebola patients should enter the United States is separate. But a missionary answers God’s call.
Skeletor has gone completely off the rails. She is to be pitied.
Ann has been laughing all the way to the bank.
Does anyone really take her seriously?
So you think mother Theresa was an idiot who wasted her time?
In my religion, marriage is a vocation. The building of a marriage and a home takes preference.
Risky behavior of all types which place another, besides God, before the marriage, and the dependents...you won’t convince me logically that such a calling is from God.
Not to say that this guy thought this was best for his family, or that it wasn’t in fact best for his marriage and family. He’d just have to detail that before I recognized him as a hero.
Ad bringing that stuff back here, extrapolates the risky behavior and makes it less apparent that he was on such a calling that you claim he is or was on.
In this country, we protect our rights to practice religion.
If you don’t think that’s important, you’re not reading the news. Ad if you think we don’t have to constantly protect the country, reexamine.
We don’t need teeming quantities of uninspected people coming from the south and we don’t need ebola here. If the guys at Emory want to explore it, let them go there, and undergo inspection and clearance and then come back.
But considering all the angles, and the logic, along with basic epidemiology and a quick study of the Christian institution of marriage, no.
and think of the nursing staff at Emory.
Maybe they’re thrilled to put this on their resume, but maybe some are just not so thrilled and have no real choice.
Compare all of that to active duty military, the military one, doesn’t bring dread diseases back in this manner.
THe military has a long time, organized way to support surviving families
no. BUT she made a choice. That was my point with the ebola victims.
Then the calling by Jesus to the Apostles must not have been a calling from God since they all left behind widows and orphans when they were martyred for their faith.
You obviously have no faith in God. God calls many men and women into dangerous situations. Those who answer God's call walk by faith that one way or the other God will deliver them from evil. You don't know whether the current breath you are taking will be your last and you can live in fear of everything or you can trust in God. It appears to me that you prefer the former.
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