Comments for 0 at http://forwardmovement.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://forwardmovement.org Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:43:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://forwardmovement.org/thursday-september-2-the-martyrs-of-new-guinea.html#comment-1402 Thank you for your comments today. I take the word extravagent to refer to how most people would regard overseas service of any kind, especially if it includes living among the poor. I was an overseas missionary a few years ago. I taught theology in Nigeria. The value of it is two-fold at least. First, it forged warm ties and understandings between two very different parts of the Anglican world, ties that continue to this day. Second, it gave me a deep appreciation of a Christian culture and spirituality other than my own. Did it help the folks in Nigeria? You'd have to ask them. I hope it did. - Richard H. Schmidt Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:53:19 +0100 http://forwardmovement.org/thursday-september-2-the-martyrs-of-new-guinea.html#comment-1401 I love to read the comments. Keep them coming! - Henry Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:02:59 +0100 http://forwardmovement.org/thursday-september-2-the-martyrs-of-new-guinea.html#comment-1400 Considering the world's human population growth dynamics, how much of a difference, as a practical matter, have our missionary efforts really achieved when the dust settles? It strikes me that we are spinning our wheels and trying to feel better about ourselves. Our missionary history has frequently been a reflection of "our" home country's nationalistic imperialism and has frequently brought disease and misery to people who might have been better off if we had left them alone. There is probably a fine line between brainwashing and proselytizing. Saving a few dozen or hundred or thousand souls while ignoring the plight of Darfur in the Sudan and other genocidal strifes strikes me as rather hypocritical. - Tom Pritchard Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:10:27 +0100 http://forwardmovement.org/thursday-september-2-the-martyrs-of-new-guinea.html#comment-1399 I agree with Irma--how is foreign mission extravagant, especially in light of the Great Commission??? Interesting that this was written in 1942, while America was fighting a war among people we didn't know, to save them--and ourselves-- from a murderous tyrant. - Barbara Summers Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:31:09 +0100 http://forwardmovement.org/thursday-september-2-the-martyrs-of-new-guinea.html#comment-1398 Sorry, I don't get it. Extravagance:foreign mission? Is that like extreme praise? Nope, dont like it. - irma Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:43:44 +0100