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Let's face it, throughout the Old Testament it is clear that there are three groups of people that need help from good, Godly people: aliens, widows, and orphans. I do not think people will dispute that.

However, there is an issue, however, of wisdom here. Is it wise to let in every tom dick and harry? Of course not.

Now the Evangelical could further argue that these people will have no other opportunity to hear the Gospel message. I heard it from the pulpit recently of an Assembly of God preacher that we should be ashamed of ourselves for not embracing these poor refugees. He prefaced that with stories he read on BBC of the women and children coming across. The wife and I had a long discussion about that later because we are quite literally in the heart of a dense Somali population. The question then becomes, have they, have we, as Evangelicals reached out to them? Hardly. It's a tough community, those Somalis. Not impossible but tough. And of course when you only get your news from BBC, which has a Muslim bias, you are going to get the poor poor pitiful me stories.

So the comments earlier that suggest these leaders are total liberal marxists are disingenuous and unhelpful.

I still say it is not a bad thing to wrestle with these ideas, especially when to NOT help is going against a lot of Scripture.

Since many in the Evangelical community have refused to go overseas or felt led to stay here to minister, they are coming to us. Again, the question is, have we done all we could to minister to those coming here from those lands?