Posted on 08/10/2014 11:36:44 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
It wasn’t as if God's voice boomed through sun-parted clouds, telling Kent Brantly to move his family to Liberia.
Still, the young doctor said, the call was clear.
It echoed through the congregation where he was raised, Southeastern Church of Christ in Indianapolis.
Standing before the church community in July 2013, months before he left for Africa, Brantly said he heard the call in the teachers who urged him to memorize Scripture and the neighbors who funded his first mission trip years ago.
He saw it in the aunts and uncles who spent their vacations running Bible camps, organizing youth groups and serving missions themselves in Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
He looks like a wonderful fellow, serious minded and kindly. I hope he will recover I really do.
Oh yeah, and Ann Coulter is an idiot for what she said, just a maroon.
Thank goodness America has very closely followed the straight and narrow path Christ laid out.
Otherwise we might actually consider the question Coulter laid out.
What actions one takes depends on one's choices, which depends on one's hierarchy of values, which depends on one's standard of values and the conditions one is in. One's standard of values depends on one's worldview, which depends on one's theology and philosophy or sense of life.What is foolish by a rational standard may be heroic to someone with a mystical standard or one based on emotionalism.
In her anti-Christian piece, Coulter said that Christian missionaries do it because they are narcissistic.
I can assure you that neither Anne Coulter nor I are either.
And I too, wish the good doctor a speedy recovery.
She first asked “Can’t anyone serve Christ in America anymore? “
Most would rather attack the person who asked the question than consider that it might be a valid question.
She went on to provide several possible answers, including the one you pointed out.
She also pointed out that “forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempts downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.”
It’s one thing for an adult to risk his life over there but it’s another thing to bring along his little kids who are too young to have a voice in the decision. It is not our responsibility to bring him back here putting this country at risk.
America has followed a path?
Fifty three million abortions in forty years? Wholesale acceptance of birth control and it’s destruction of the family, hidden massive chemical abortions by BCPs, rampant pornography, programming children in government schools, teaching prepubescent kids about sex, pushing homosexual marriage outside the will of the majority of people, ignoring the Constitution and the obligation to realize we the people are in charge of our government?
Ok...
Most American Christians, many millions, serve in America. A relative few serve in such areas as Liberia. Some begrudge even those few. Those against even those few seem to have a grudge that isn’t related to having enough Christians serving at home in America. Many who object aren’t serving in either place. Leave them alone. Let them serve. To God be the glory.
The point of those few words eluded you.
Are you saying that their motives shouldn’t be questioned?
No more than your motives in questioning their motives.
Evangelical Christians do serve America, and Ann Coulter calls them fakes, “narcissists” while she promotes gays.
Why didn’t she attack the Catholic church? Why no0t attack the man that she has pushed on
America for 8 years?
As spirit wife to Bishop Mitt Romney, doesn’t she realize that he, his father, and his five sons have all been missionaries overseas?
How so? What does coulter say, specifically, in this piece that does not make sense?
Yes, who are you to be attacking Christians doing God’s work?
Why should you be attacking the best among us for self-sacrifice?
Makes logical sense to me.
Thank God, your fellow man doesn’t depend on you, your dislike for Christians sure comes through.
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