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1 | So what does this passage mean? | Matt 10:14 | Hank | 16913 | ||
Bill Mc, I don't see this as a passage of Scripture that should pose any problem for anyone to understand. Jesus' words are clear enough. Take His message to the world. Present it, teach it, preach it. On those who do not receive the message or the messenger, shake off your dust and go to someone else. Jesus used the word "whoever" and "home" and "city", but the sense of the context would be strained indeed should we read it to mean an entire people, or nation, or perhaps a whole region, such as the Middle East. --Hank | ||||||
2 | So what does this passage mean? | Matt 10:14 | Bill Mc | 16917 | ||
OK, Hank, thanks for your response. I just have mixed feelings concerning our missionaries who could die for sharing the gospel where it has been made imperatively clear (under sentence of death) that Christ is not wanted there. I'm outraged that our government can do nothing about it. We can obviously pray for them. But it seems hypocritical to pray, 'God, keep them safe and spare their lives', then support sending them or others right back into the lion's den. | ||||||
3 | So what does this passage mean? | Matt 10:14 | Hank | 16921 | ||
That is indeed a grave concern, Bill, and I believe all Christians share it and none has a really good answer. We are living in a world in which easy answers come with rapidly diminishing frequency. Were it not for my hope in Christ I would be, I should think, numbered among the world's greatest pessimists. Whether the real and present problem of mortal danger to Christian missionaries in a given location was indeed addressed in Jesus' phrase about shaking off the dust I cannot say with anything that approaches certainty. A missionary effort that is known beforehand to be met with deadly resistance before it has a chance to carry out its function would hardly be worth mounting and could not have any positive effect, it seems to me. A live missionary is more apt to bring the lost to Christ than a dead one. To this scenario, perhaps Jesus' words do indeed apply. --Hank | ||||||
4 | So what does this passage mean? | Matt 10:14 | Searcher56 | 16935 | ||
Hank, Do you know January 8, 1956 is a day that changed the missionary world. Do you know what the impact of the deaths of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, Roger Youerian had on the world, not just the Huaorani? Jim's wife and Nate's sister went back ... and now Nate's son ministers in an area that was very hostile. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." (an entry in Jim Elliot's journal) Are you willing to die for Him? Steve |
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