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Re: Why do We Romanticize Foreign Missions?
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Originally Posted by LadyRev
The bold is a blanket statement and is not true for all.
As for home missionaries having to work full time secular jobs, SO WHAT?
My pastor and pastors wife both work secular jobs. Guess what? We aren't "home missions" so theres no support at all coming from anywhere. Our church has been around for over 30 years and has been through hell and back multiple times with multiple pastor changes over the years. There has been no help during those times when attendance has been so low that the building was almost repossessed. People worked, people gave and God blessed and somehow the church has survived it all.
I suppose my pastor and his wife should get upset over those foreign missionaries that receive support and may not have to work secular jobs? I guess they should get upset that there was no plan in place to help them when they first took the church under less than perfect circumstances?
THEY WOULDN'T DREAM OF IT!
If this wasn't so sad it would be laughable...
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Once the churches are built, how long does a foreign country need American missionaries? Shouldn't the saints of that country do exactly what the saints in your church did? When does foreign missions to certain countries become like the American welfare system?
BTW, if you read Charnock's post in which you responded there was nothing but facts given and not sentiments good or bad. What do you find "so sad" with his words?
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