re: American missionaries in Haiti killed yesterday

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They thought Jesus would protect them

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Let me tell you something bro, this little life you're living right now is like a grain of all the sand on earth. Your soul lives forever

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I do not understand exactly why people do things like this. Is there not people here in the US that need the same sort of services these people are providing? Or is it like some sort of vacation to them?

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I don’t know, maybe because the last words of their savior on this earth were to go to ALL NATIONS and share his Gospel. You may not buy it and think it’s a load of crock, but to act like it’s beyond comprehension is odd. As long as Christianity has existed there have been missionaries.

Aren’t there some hot Scandinavians that need missionaried to?

Americans have got to stay out of these shite hole countries. People are stupid for risking their lives.

They can call themselves whatever they want. Flying to another country with your white wife or girlfriend and putting yourself in harms way to preach to Africans about ANYTHING is about as cuckoo liberal as it gets

You ever heard the story of Jim Elliot? Missionaries have been putting themselves in harms way for centuries. It has nothing to do with cuckoo liberalism. A soldier dies in the line of duty and we celebrate the heroisms.A missionary dies advancing a message they believe helps the world and they are called idiots. At least they died for a cause they felt was worth dying for.

The US government does NOT supply the gospel.

As has been alluded to, these missionaries were fulfilling their calling to share the Great Commision. They were not on vacation or attention getting.

Should the apostles have not gone out since most were martyred? What about missionaries who have given their lives for the gospel throughout history?

Something all should realize is that humans are eternal beings with eternal destinies. All, and this includes the readers of this thread, will stand before God to give an account. Because of the work of Jesus Christ, who took the penalty for our sins, Christians, those who have genuinely received Him as Savior, will stand as righteous because of Christ's righteousness. Those who reject the gospel will not because all have sinned and fall short of God's glory, which is our ultimate purpose in creation.

As I have suggested previously, those wanting to explore this should read The Reason for God by Timothy Keller and/or Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis.

Sad about this; my church also does missions in far-flung places.

To be fair, we do some mission work locally, too.

My thing is: let’s keep it all local - there’s plenty of need right here without playing Sisyphus in all the shite holes of the world.

Guess I’m not your ideal evangel…

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Probably attention. They can go to social media and post pictures saying "look we are helping". All for attention.

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This is one of the most ignorant and offensive things I’ve ever read on this site. You have no clue about this family and their calling.

I happen to have been around these folks a few times and they are wonderful people that have been in Haiti for more than 20 years. In fact, if you look it up, Davy (the man that was murdered) spent most of his life in Haiti and was actually kidnapped there as a 5 year old boy in the early 2000s, but was safely returned. They knew the dangers but felt called to do the work. They run a large orphanage, feed over 600 homeless people, and have a ton of outreach. This is a horrible, heart rending tragedy.

It’s not for attention and your comment is despicable.

Was there on mission trips in 2013 and 2014. What’s happening now is proof how a society can devolve quickly.

Granted it wasn’t exactly the caymans in 2014, but I never felt unsafe driving through Port au Prince or the countryside (at least the areas we were in).