And yet gives an award of "Missionary of the Year" to a Hispanic preacher who has buil churches with mostly an illegal alien flock.
According to your rhetoric, shouldn't this minister be drummed out of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Did you read the article Dean? The leaders of the SBC are concerned about illegals. They can evangelize them all they would like and should help any in need. Then they can carry their new found faith back to Mexico and El Salvador with them when they reapply for some temporary landscape worker visa from Guerrero or Michoacan or Acajutla or wherever. My church ministers heavily in Sierra Leone where I once lived but that doesn't mean they are offering blanket amnesty immigration for all of Sierra Leone to move here en masse. Ministry has no borders but has to respect those of which those doing the ministering are citizens and the nations where they minister. Christ spoke at length about respect for law...draw your own conclusions from that as you wish.
Any opportunity to fulfill the Great Commission should be taken--
But Biblical principle is also to render unto civil government the things that are the civil government's.
Rule of law, national sovereignty, national security--none of these are in conflict with the Bible--lawbreaking, anarchy, racial strife, threats of revolution against a peaceful sovereign nation are...