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Re: Misssionaries With God Complexes
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Originally Posted by ILG
I have not read this whole thread.
I do remember Foreign Missionaries being supported financially, emotionally and were given more respect than Home Missionaries.....who were kind of treated like the losers who couldn't get a "real" church.
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That was (and maybe still is) a problem when my Dad pastored, but it's not the fault of missionaries. When my Dad finally "graduated" out of that program, he always made a point to help home missionaries for that reason.
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I do see why some foreign missionaries would decry the excesses in America. Maybe they aren't expressing it where people can respond positively.
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And I would think it to be very tricky to express a need for funds in a way in which no one is ever offended. Even trickier still to express frustration at the "system" or general selfishness. It's like a pastor having to ask for money to pay the church utilities. If you're a small church, it's squeezing blood out of a turnip, but if you don't let people know, they'll be pretty upset when the lights go out. 
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