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 ...
An ongoing long time career as a nurse puts that theory to rest. Though it’s not stated as a theory, but an accusatory fact
Try reading my post as sarcasm.
Before I answer, please define ‘attacking’.
Duh. I thought it might be
So you are paid to nurse, but war against Christianity on the forums.
I have known a lot of creepy and sordid nurses in my time, but not so with Christian missionaries.
LOL, I’ll let people just look at your posts.
My daughter is a missionary and teacher in Nicaragua. She lives behind barbed wire and with night guards after four pm. She is 22. Been there four years in varying capacities.
I love her and leave her in God’s hands. But my heart would want her home.
II take issue, not with your silly judgmental posts, but with people who not only bring harm to their homes, this country., or potential harm, asin this case, and put Jesus’ name on it, but those who get married start a fily and then leave their spouse going off into danger,
Dangerous missionary work is for single people and it is not to endanger ones own home or country
You disagree
I get that.
I am not attempting to change your mind
And if thee is one post that I have made in the past three days of my defense from your nasty lying smarminess that has said anything against your character or had even shown that I care that you agree with me then cut and paste it
Otherwise back off We disagree Fine
Yeah, I knew you’d be afraid to go on record.
Big on words, fearful when challenged.
You really do enjoy trolling and Christian bashing.
A true, nasty little fellow.
Christian missionaries do God’s work and what they are called to do, they really bug you though.
Perhaps you can go after soldiering as well, perhaps Chaplains.
It sticks in your craw that we would bring home an American priest or nun to save their life if they get infected serving an overseas mission.
I understand. My daughters have been doing mission work, both teaching and medical, since they were 17. (They are now medical professionals—a doctor and a physical therapist.) On their first trip they heard machine gun fire during the night and had a Kalashnikov pointed at them in anger. They have served in relatively tame areas such as Hungary and Peru, but also have served three weeks on a surgical unit in Nigeria, multiple times in Albania (including during the Kosovo troubles), four weeks in the Rift Valley in Kenya, roadless areas in Guatemala (for which they had to pack in their equipment), and three months in Amazonian Ecuador. They have saved souls and lives on three continents. It can be unsettling to their parents, but...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. (Teddy Roosevelt)
Could you post the words I used to bash Christians?
I’ve stated my view on that
You are quite something, going around slandering Freepers, and then running away when challenged.
Well, he went to push Christianity on...Christians? Most Liberians are Christian.
Me? I just saw it as a mitvah.
as for taking the kids, well this was a problem 80 years ago, but unless there is a war or epidemic, I see no problem. Africa is no longer a jungle as portrayed in fund raisers,and post civil war Liberiaà has become a lot more sophisticated. A lot has changed in the last 50 years, but few Americans are aware of this.
And yes, I worked in Liberia back then.
Why shouldn’t he bring the kids? As long as you drink clean water and take anti malaria prophylaxis, there’d be no danger in Liberia. True, dad could have brought home disease from the hospital, but that happens in the US also.
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