if you want to stop crime send crimenals on missonry work just jokein but i must suck as a job i mean you work in the most unhabital places just to convert people who are perfectly happy with there religion (id like to get some answers from missonerys)(i know my spelling is bad)
2007-04-01
01:29:47
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so Gastoune… think that because i have asbergise and that make spelling hard that im satan its not the dark ages
2007-04-01
02:04:04 ·
update #1
Yes, missionaries do work to spread their religion but they also do much more. They go to impoveriched olaces and help the villagers by building schools, digging wells, healing the sick with medicines that are locally unavailable, and so much more.
And waht do they get for their efforts? Too often they are kidnapped and murdered. At least they made themselves right with their God first.
The peace corps does the same mission, with much less religion.
2007-04-01 01:35:31
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answered by ©2009 7
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It's not done out of superiority. It is a general love for all mankind that makes people missionaries. I personally don't want ANYONE to go to hell. Not even Osama Bin Laden!
Satan has lied to the world. Look around. The only religion in America that gets absolutely NO respect by the public view is Christianity. Satan and his rebellion have implemented this plan and now the majority accepts chritianity as foolishness.
There is a constant spiritual war going on and missionaries and mature christians are on the front lines...
2007-04-01 02:08:48
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answered by witness 4
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The thing is about missionary work or other sacrifices that Christians make is that we are not looking at this life as the be all and end all of our existence. We serve the living God of Heaven who tells us that He has created us in Jesus to do good works that He has prepared in advance for us to do and we look forward to the eternity that waits for every person on the other side of the grave.
Besides all of that, missionaries don't go around preaching to people who are "perfectly happy" with their religion. They go out and proclaim the good news that all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory but that He has made a way for us to be saved by sending Jesus to pay our sin debt for us.
Missionaries get to witness the miracle of changed lives as lost sinners come to Christ and the Holy Spirit gives them hope and joy and they are delivered from their besetting sins and worries.
2007-04-01 01:39:03
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answered by Martin S 7
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Can I just say to Gastoune. You obviously didn't know the answer to the question. So you had to pick on something petty like spelling mistakes. Nobody's perfect. Bad spelling and grammar are the signs of the devil? What. A. Bunch. Of. Crap. ( excuse my language )
GROW UP YOU TWIT.
2007-04-01 07:24:56
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I've done missionary work, and it's very gratifying, believe me. To follow in the footsteps of Christ is the most exciting thing that a person can do. It may not be living in luxury, but it's very rewarding. These people are not necessarily happy with their religion either. They have absolutely no knowledge of the Christian life, and that's my job to inform them and make them aware.
2007-04-01 01:38:33
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answered by Unshaken Faith 4
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I know that bad spelling and grammar are signs of the Devil.
2007-04-01 02:00:45
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answered by Anonymous
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Thinking that you religion is Superior and trying to convert others is the height of arrogance.
It hurts your feelings when someone pokes fun or makes disparaging comments about what you believe in. You know it does. People’s beliefs are precious to them, just as yours are precious to you. Simply thinking or saying but my beliefs are right and theirs are wrong does not help. In fact it is always seen as arrogant and often comes off making the one saying it sound like a fool.
People believe in what makes sense to them from their perspective, even if it makes no sense logically when it is looked at from any other perspective. Look around you at the great diversity the creator has given us to experience in this life. See the colorful and ever changing panorama that we have here to experience within. If this shows us any one thing about our creator, it makes it apparent that He/She loves this idea of diversity. If you look at any aspect of life, trees, birds, languages, or even sunsets you see an almost dizzying array of possibilities. This life we have been given by our Father/Mother God is a veritable feast of diversity from which we may chose what pleases us.
Such is the gift this life we have been given. Why is it so hard to imagine that our creator’s obvious love for diversity would not extend to the way his children expressed their love for him? If it seemed appropriate to have thousands of types of insects, birds, trees and sunsets etc. how likely is it that She would have suddenly become so narrow minded when it came to ways to express ones faith. Think about it. Just for a moment forget what you have been told over and over about their being only one correct way to approach God. Would this God who so obviously thrives on diversity even want that? When viewed from this perspective it makes one wonder about the source of the my-way or the highway idea of god. Sounds a lot more like ego bound narrow-minded human control issues than the work of our God who seems to have made diversity his trademark.
There is only one God; He/She has had many names. After all should we expect people who speak different languages to all call God by the same name? This would hardly seem to be a logical expectation. Jesus told us to love our neighbor, not to judge our neighbor or try to fix our neighbor, Only to love them. We are hardly being loving when we are insulting the way they express their love for our creator by telling them we have a better way. This can only make us seen like an arrogant know it all. The obvious consequence being our comments will hurt their feelings and they will say or do something to return the insult.
If we want our faith to grow we need to stop going around singing “MY Gods better than your God “. We need to shut up about their beliefs and start teaching by example. If we have learned anything about loving our neighbors like Jesus asked us to, it will show. People will be drawn to this loving belief system and want to know more about it. This is what being a Christian means. Anything else is just being an arrogant know it all.
Love and blessings
don
2007-04-01 01:34:15
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answered by Anonymous
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why do thay have to spead there evil around the world and destroy countrys just because a fairy tale tells them to
2007-04-01 01:51:08
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answered by andrew w 7
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Check your current priorities pleaswe!!!
2007-04-01 01:36:37
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answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7
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Try spell check......
2007-04-01 01:33:42
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answered by Anonymous
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