Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia and the rest of those diseases of the mind are all fear-based and many times full of hate, malice, and every evil thing. Eighty years ago a former wallpaper hanger in Germany named Adolf, used the tenants of these diseases to justify the murder of millions. How will we win the hearts of those in these difficult areas without a true compassion? How will the present day church answer their Master when they so often turn a deaf ear to a suffering believer or non-believer (much less lay down their life.)
I tell you plainly, Friends, every time you turn on your TV and hear someone talk with disdain toward a particular people group, their religion, or their culture, then beware. The rhetoric ironically enough seems to play well in the more conservative Bible-based areas of our land and there is NO WAY the Great Commission will be carried out in our time if Christians allow these things to root and fester in their minds.
The Barnabas Fellowship is not making a plea for your money in this note. We just want to thank you for hearts. Hearts that are open to touch the “unlovely” and reach out to those others may turn away from. His kingdom is very big and we have brothers and sisters in Pakistan and many other Mid-eastern countries.
(We win in the end) k.h.
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