Posted on 08/08/2014 2:50:25 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
One of the essential lessons of clear thinking is to avoid specious “either/or” dichotomies. Ann Coulter violated this basic standard in her intentionally sensational article, “Ebola Doc’s Condition Downgraded to ‘Idiotic.’" She wondered why missionary doctor Kent Brantly didn’t stay in the U.S. to “serve Christ” instead of going to Liberia, where he “risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless.” In other words, in Ann’s opinion, Christian service is limited to one of two options: serve in the U.S., or abandon wife and children to “slink off” to do “heroic” “good works” in “Third World countries” that are “disease-ridden cesspools.” Obviously to folks with Ann’s infantile perspective, such “idiocy” is merely to “impress” people like the NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
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Don’t worry about certain stupid posters, you are right. If God calls you for a certain place, of course, go. But for the most part, a man should have his priorities straight and take care of his own as a very high priority.
“missionaries, in the name of God, are responsible for the undermining and destruction of more then a few indigenous cultures on this planet.”
Like introducing them to modern medicine and so they cannot continue to be the quaint indigenous cultures that National Geographic loves to take photos of?
John 10:27 My sheep know my voice and I know them, and they follow Me.
When We marry We become one, He will not call the one without the other, how they choose to fulfill that is up to them. I was responding to Ann’s statement, not here to argue Theology.
I agree. That is the crux of too many problems in missions. Missionaries neglect spouse and family for the ‘call’ of God. Pastors, too. Christians really need a wake up call.
The Great Commission Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
I agree. That is the crux of too many problems in missions. Missionaries neglect spouse and family for the ‘call’ of God. Pastors, too. Christians really need a wake up call.
The Great Commission Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. Matthew 28:16-20>
Bottom line on Missionary’s.....take your kids or don’t go.
The only one who has a poor grasp of what Christianity is you.
I challenge you on each and every screwed up belief you have on Christianity.
Yiu are doing the work of Satan by attacking Christians for doing what Gad specifically orders Christians to do.
READ THE BIBLE before you ever criticize a Christian for doing missionary work.
WRONG!
You need to understand that it is not always beneficiary to bring the children.
Go and study history and you will see that most missionaries did NOT bring their family.
As for “the call” I am reminded of a sign posted over the “exit” of a church...reading...”You are now entering the Mission Zone”.....
So yes...we are all called but that call , no matter where one is must be under the direction of God's Spirit.
There are far too many who think they are called overseas etc. who never were actually called there. Rather a desire of their own.
When it comes to medically helping others, even our nurses and Dr.s here are subjected to diseases daily. So the risk is here or there though some more dangerous than others.
I have family members who both considered joining the military, in the medical field, who ultimately determined against it because they opted to parent the three children they had.
I think it's a very fine line when one has children if or not to go overseas without them....and rare that God calls family's to separate to accommodate “the call”.
....”it is not always beneficiary to bring the children”....
Then you shouldn’t go.
No, what you do not realize is that there should be 100s more going overseas than there are.
Way too many Christians DO NOT head the call.
You are so off on what Christ calls Christians to do it’s ridiculous.
Heck, there should be 10s of 1000s more Christians going on missionaries over seas to spread the Gospel.
....” Missions begin at the end of your arm and with your family”.....”God never called anyone to undermine their families for some other calling”
Yes I agree. Though I do believe on a ‘temporary’ basis of need this might be possible. Certainly not long range.
Why don’t you stop telling God what we should do, and instead follow what He tells you to do.
You are obviously either not a Christian or a very ignorant one.
No I’m not...
we disagree... I do ‘not’ believe God asks a man to sacrifice his “responsibility” for his children in order to answer what he perceives as another calling.
Yes, on a temporary basis this might be acceptable. Men in all walks of life have to leave from time to time, be it work related or military etc. But on the whole there are too many Missionaries who are out there under their own power and desire over that of God’s call....
So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first." Mark 10:29-31
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