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To: kawaii
i dont know where you get that assumption from.

Well, just the Gideons by themselves give away over 63,000,000 copies of scriptures (usually in the form of the complete NT plus Psalms and Proverbs) every single year. They are just a part of the Bible-believing Protestant global missionary effort. My own denomination, Southern Baptist, is very involved in distributing free Bibles, and especially translating them into languages that have never had a Bible before. This is a defining part of who we are. While I know there are and have been Catholic and Orthodox missionaries, I am unaware that nearly the same emphasis is put on these endeavors in your respective churches.

11,329 posted on 03/15/2007 1:01:35 AM PDT by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper

then i'd suggest yo endeavor to visit such a missionary church.

it seems to me that yours is the sort of thinking that leads to missionaries figuring that anyone in the 3rd world or east europe etc are backward pagans just waiting for protestants to show them Christianity when in fact they are already baptised and beleiving Christians.


11,335 posted on 03/15/2007 6:40:53 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: Forest Keeper

Also you may want to read up on St Cyril and Methodius.

Not only have the Orthodox long sought to make scripture available to all, they were the first to work to have it be available in local languages. (Much to the chagrin of West Europeon nations who thought the idea foul even after the pope had approved it!)


11,336 posted on 03/15/2007 6:42:42 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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