foreign missionaries are sometimes invited by the local church or denominational leadership. but that’s for countries with developed church leadership; the first missionaries or missionaries to “unreached” people groups are rarely invited or even wanted;
so, what should we do? try sending a team of people to offer free medical service? not to afghanistan! the taliban agreed to free all the remaining korean hostages, and the korean gov’t agreed to pull out its remaining 200 soldiers as it had originally planned anyways, and also not to allow other korean christians in the country.
i understand that the afghan gov’t doesn’t have full control over what goes on inside its borders; that’s a reality that we should accept; i also don’t encourage anyone of any religious background to go there for any reason.
still, given that someone or some group feels convicted to go there to love the people there– remember that the korean gov’t insisted that the hostages were there only to provide free medical help, how can this incident help them to realize that they were mistaken? i mean, what goes on inside a person’s mind who now has to say, “oh, my mistake, it wasn’t God convicting me to go there”?
i know it’s not that simple; but it seems that terrorism pays well. God is great!
