What is your opinion of missionaries spreading their religion in foreign countries?

Answer 1

They are doing an excellent job and there is still more work to be done. The harvest is plenty but the workers are few.
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Answer 2

My aunt was a missionary and I have known a lot of missionaries.
In my aunt's case, she literally risked her life to train people to start churches in their country. She was hated by the mainstream religion, and had bombs planted outside her door, bullets shot through her window, and a poisonous snake left under her pillow.

Yet she lived in near poverty until she retired. Now that she's back here in the U.S., she actually sleeps on a real mattress and lives in a house with utilities. However, she only has this nice of a place because someone set up a retirement village for missionaries. She lives there rent free as she only has a minimal social security fund. She had to pay social security on her missionary funds even though she lived for 42 years outside of the country.

Do I feel that she did the right thing. Absolutely! She went there to help men prepare for ministry. The area where she worked allowed very little education for a person, so many of these people could barely read in their own language. Her job was to train them so they could pastor a church, including teaching them to read and write in their own language.

She taught them compassion and love, where the mainstream religion used fear and hatred to keep the people entrapped in their religion. The local priests of the mainstream religion would use fear to keep people obedient. Her work resulted in a lot of people being freed of that fear, plus gave them an assurance of an eternal life.

Answer 3

They are just following their calling and convictions. I don't see anything wrong. If they are Christians then they are answering 'The Great Commission' and so they are on track. The beauty of it all is that there is no coercion in Christianity and there is no burdening someone. It all depends on how you feel about it. You want to embrace Christianity, good. You don't want to, fine too. So let them go ahead. The Bible says, 'My People perish for lack of knowledge....." and that is why the missionaries go to the foreign countries to spread the good news. In most cases they go with charity too and provide very many good dimensions of the caring, loving and empathy that the Christian Religion teaches.

Answer 4

Well, whenever I leve the room I say, "Well, I'm off to shoot a missionary."

What do you think?

Missionaries go to impovershed, third world nations, dangle a chicken wing over an emaciated child with one hand while thrusting a Bible into their weak little arms with the other hand and tell them that "it's actually your spirit that's the hungriest, and after you believe in Jesus then you can have real food."

Answer 5

In all seriousness,they should be viewed as illegal aliens spreading dissention..sometimes sedition.You only have to view the Q&A here to understand the disparities involved and the never ending back and forth from fanatics of all sides.I try and keep my own counsel.Religion over the Ages will be judged soon enough...

Answer 6

If missionaries respectfully share their faith with others, it is nice. in my opinion, i've got had some great conversations with Mormons at my door approximately faith, kinfolk, and faith. they did no longer convince me to transform, besides the fact that it became into no longer time wasted by making use of the two part. If missionaries share their faith with love and understanding, it is nice. the priority is, many missionaries are confident that their way is the only way. That the dominant faith in the rustic they discover themselves in is by some skill incorrect. below those circumstances, i does not help missionary artwork. returned, I have not any concern if somebody needs to share his/her ideals with me or others. provided that this is performed respectfully. all of the terrific.

Answer 7

As long as they are simply informing other cultures/religions about their beliefs, and acting as an example of their faith, I'm fine with it. The days of forcible conversion are over, thankfully.

Mind you, should sword-point conversion ever make a comeback, I will start shooting missionaries on sight.

Answer 8

I think that it is a great demonstration of faith, and in some instances a rite of passage.

Having been a missionary in a foreign country, I can attribute all of the great things in my life since then to that one experience.

It is the sign of true believers--even though they don't necessarily have to go to foreign countries.

Answer 9

In a way it's good. Lots of missionaries, upon seeing other cultures and seeing how sincere others hold their different beliefs, it makes them look more critically at theirs and many become atheists. And for the sake of humanity we need more atheists no matter how we can get them.

Answer 10

The idea makes me physically ill. There's no way I'd tolerate someone coming into my home and trying to convert me, and I think most Christians would feel the same if someone from another religion tried to convert them.

Answer 11

It's what they're called to do. Missionaries have done great things for foreign people groups. End of the Spear/Through the Gates of Splendor tells the story of an excellent example. I'm all for it.