First of all, plain old missionary doesn't work everywhere.
The important insights and methodological warnings of David C. Scott on pre-colonial orientalism, especially in a context where
the missionary does not initially create, but enters into, structures of authority, perceived or otherwise, must not be lost sight of.
But also please consider that God has called every one of His children to be a missionary, and being
a missionary does not require a person to cross the sea.
I think my answer to this person would be the same to the person who says that mega-churches are superior... being a missionary doesn't glorify God... being part of or planting a mega church doesn't glorify God.
What you, David, have touched on is the majority approach to trying to get people to believe as the preacher / believer /
missionary does.
When
missionaries do sell their business they often seek to find a buyer like Warren Buffett who will not treat the business as an opportunity to create the equivalent of a strip mine.
thats what Christian
missionaries do... give them money, medicines and then tell them to convert to Christianity... and fool them saying its «Miracle of Jesus!!»
Unlike their mainstream Protestant counterparts, Seventh - day Adventist
missionaries did not create independent national churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Our missionaries don't teach that.
Thankfully, most
missionaries do not fit this description.
Missionaries did bring disease everywhere they went, cuz you know, the local peoples weren't naturally ingrained with reistsances to them... either that or maybe the missionary brought god's punishment with him un to the unbelievers, so they all converted?
It seems that for my Western Christian friends, if
missionaries did not justify by their field labors the guilt the West carries about the mischief of the white race in the rest of the world, then other missionaries would have to be invented to justify that guilt.
We have already noted that the overseas
missionaries did not bring God to Africa.
Few
missionaries did that sort of thing anymore.
The missionaries did no wrong to show why even they are putting all their lives into what's a desperate situation in the mission field.
Sometimes
missionaries did not hesitate to strike a militant note in their approach to certain powerful landlords.
It's thought the missionary didn't know he was infected when his friend, Fr Pajares, left, so he decided to stay in Liberia to continue his work.
Too often
the missionaries did impose a Western life style on their converts and in recent years African and Asian Christians have tried to recover their cultural heritage.
Missionaries don't quit when the going gets tough.
Travel medical insurance for
missionaries does not only cover medical expenses; it also offers reimbursement for emergency evacuation services.
Not exact matches
This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin
did with LA's New Temple
Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.
North Korea is currently holding two Korean - American academics and a
missionary, a Canadian pastor and three South Korean nationals who were
doing missionary work.
They handed the business to friends, went to
do missionary work in Uganda for two and a half years, then returned to the U.S. (and the business) in 2014.
Do all founders who are
missionaries, visionary, persistent, obsessive and relentless succeed?
I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never
done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and
doing charitable
missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.
Biraq, don't forget that medicine, education and agricultural technologies from Christendom and Christian
missionaries have been saving the whole humanity.
When I was
doing heavy inner city
missionary work I waitressed.
Don't even pretend like you know something about Christianity until you've walked a mile in the shoes of a Christian
missionary, a Christian pastor, a military chaplain, a christian volunteer at a homeless shelter, etc..
Jewish never
do a violence because they
do not
do the
missionary act or spreading their beliefs.
******** And Judas was an apostle -------- Just pointing out to trey that being (formerly a foreign
missionary and ordained minister, or for that matter and apostle)-
does not equal saved.
(He
does seem to recognize Islam, with its history of racial slavery and its
missionary drive, as a particular problem, around which he stumbles and fumbles a bit.)
I don't usually advocate
doing missionary work illegally.
They didn't even hear of the Abrahamic God until the 1500s and in fact banned
Missionaries.
I have a friend who
does missionary work in a Central American country (exact whereabouts not important to disclose).
As opposed to beiving in a god who can create rainbows all over the world, but can't even spread his own word, without waiting 2000 years for
missionaries to
do it — somewhat.
if not, i pray for you and i will set up
missionaries all across the globe to make sure that the rest of the lost souls also find Santa Clause within them... let's first begin with donations; only from your heart and soul, and because of your kindness... no other agenda... Santa Clause loves you my dear... he has touched my heart so I know he exists... and I want you to believe in Santa Clause as well so you don't have to burn in hell... i want to save your soul my child... come pray with me...
No one ever argues that the
missionaries / catholic charities don't
do great work — they
do.
The Free Methodist Church USA issued a press statement confirming that the 71 - year - old — who has spent decades as a
missionary — had been released, though it
did not say whether or not a ransom was paid.
He avoided the draft, if I understand correctly, by
doing missionary work and attending college.
George V. Pixley, the son of Baptist
missionaries,
did his elementary and secondary education at Colegio Bautista, Managua, Nicaragua.
After years of upholding a model whereby a hundred believers send one of their number to «go be a
missionary» on a foreign piece of geography, it's not easy to admit that we didn't quite get it right.
Why can't god
do that on his own??? You believe he can (and
does) throw up bright visible rainbows as messages all over the world almost continuously when he wants to, without any church leaders, or
missionaries, or the bible's help.
I don't trust
missionaries, they are arrogant, lying con men, and a fake clergy identification to avoid the draft?
So
do you consider cultural destruction through
missionary work to be a sin?
No, you are not directly responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, the thousands (or millions) of women killed during the various witch hunts, the millions killed by
missionaries, the millions killed by Hitler, the suffocation of science, the persecution of free thinkers..., but you
did sign on with the same group that IS responsible for all of that.
So there are many orgs like World Vision, and
missionary societies dotted around the place — is this because the local church is not
doing it's job and therefore there is a gap that these orgs fill?
Was Bruce Olsen's Journey wrong because he
did not follow the established path that
missionaries are supposed to follow?
I have evaluated that, as a native African
missionary, my team and I can
do more effective work in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting
missionary can
do with $ 100,000.
Ahmad Khan was also involved in a controversy with the Christian
missionaries which led him to write a commentary on the Bible, in which he showed that many Muslim religious scholars, such as Bukhari,
did not believe that the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament had suffered from interpolation at the hands of the Jews and the Christians.