Friday, October 10, 2014
Response to Missionary doctor criticism
Recently, Missionary doctors have been the subject of controversy over the treating of the virus Ebola. You see where secular organizations have pulled out because there is no more limelight in treating Ebola, the Christian doctors have stayed and continued to treat the virus. To non-believers this seems like a completely outrageous concept, why risk your life treating those lower than you? Yet the Missionary doctors continue to stay with no plan to pull out in the near future, and this bothers some people. An article written by Brian Palmer for "Slate" magazine, said "It's great that these people are doing God's work, but do they have to talk about him so much? Obviously this man is ignorant about Christianity and knows nothing about it. But is that not why we as Christians do acts like this? To show God's glory and love for us? Galatians 5:13 states that: "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." Now to those who are unfamiliar to the Christian faith, I pray this sheds some light for you and answers your question as to why Missionary doctors stay behind and serve the people of Africa. It is because where secular doctors and missionaries do it to be in the limelight or get the paycheck, those missionary doctors are called to a higher purpose than a lame paycheck, and that is to be a servant to the rest of the world. Jesus was on this earth for 33-34 years before he was crucified, there wasn't a second that he wasted in doing something for a profit or doing something selfish. The creator of everything laid down his life for us sinners, that in and of itself is enough to answer the question of why Missionaries stay, why Missionaries risk their life, and why Missionaries can't stop spreading God's word. But those who refuse to accept that fact look for other answers, they don't find them and they justify their way to their own doctrine. And this is what has become the modern doctrine, welcome to the American Gospel.
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Good read, a little venting on this subject is ok, I feel the same way.
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