Why did the Saemmul Community Church of S. Korea send 23 young Christians to a war-torn Muslim country?

Question

South Korea has 16,000 missionaries abroad at end 2006, many in Muslim nations. The S. Korean church leaders must surely be made accountable for making use of naive, innocent young adults as missionaries to satisfy their evangelical zeal. Discuss.

Answer 1

The 23 hostages belong to the Saemmul Church in Bundang, a city outside South Korea's capital, Seoul. Most of them are in their 20s and 30s, and include nurses, doctors and teachers.

The group was taking part in an aid mission (not an evangelical one) when they were abducted. They understood the risks but declined a military escort because they thought it would intimidate the people they were going to help.

Funny, if these people were anyone but Christians, they would be though of as heroes.

Answer 2

The only reason Saemmul Community Church of S. Korea send 23 young Christians to a war-torn Muslim country is to make sure the Muslims converted to Christians.

Answer 3

Isn't it telling, that the factual answer of Ms Osborne is left unvoted for, while the winning answer is a single dismissive word that does not look at the facts but is merely an emotional response that does not look at these hostages as human beings making sacrifices and reaching beyond racial and religious boundaries to make the world a better place.

Are we becoming more rational or less rational as we bow down to the religion of human reason to the exclusion of the supernatural.

Answer 4

Uh...are you Muslim? If not, then why do you elect to mimic them? We individuals stay by using our very own regulations and continuously have....nicely, a minimum of till recently while such distinctive of you look to choose to undertake Mexico's regulations re the undocumented and Islam's regulations re non-Islamic places of worship. right here in usa, American Muslims are lined by using the 1st modification and characteristic a outstanding to construct mosques and to worship as they see extra healthful. Muslim countries that don't choose Christian church homes are coping with an prolonged and violent background with ecu Christianity it is pondered of their cultures. we've not got that background or their cultures. Re Indonesia: like the Philippines, there is been an prolonged time "conflict" between Muslim and Christian components interior the populations of specific "blended" factors. i assume you forgot to incorporate the articles approximately Christian slaughtering Muslims in those section. In 2007 17 Christians have been convicted of beheading Muslims. recently, the ax is being swung any different way. In maximum of those circumstances, there is extra to it than in simple terms religious variations. The communities belong to distinctive tribes, cultures and talk distinctive dialects, etc. faith is in simple terms the latest excuse they use to kill one yet another.

Answer 5

They are adults responsible for their own actions. Perhaps they didn't realize the full dangers involved. Perhaps they knew but didn't care.

Answer 6

Delusion.
No discussion necessary.