Misguided priorities

A post at SBC Voices takes-up the recent death of a missionary who visited a country where he’d been told he was unwelcome — and got killed for his trouble.

There has been a lot of discussion recently of the death of John Allen Chau, a young missionary who violated Indian laws to go the remote North Sentinel Island to proclaim Christ to the isolated people who lived there and was immediately killed. He was aware of the danger of his actions and said that while he did not want to die he felt the call of God to take the gospel to these people who did not know Jesus.

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2. Christians should abide by the laws of the land and live in peace, but if a law says that it is illegal to share Christ with anyone, the Great Commission supersedes that law.

Well.

I’m not interested in debating whether or not it should be illegal to proselytize on North Sentinel Island; I’ll say merely that I don’t think summary death is an appropriate response to those who do so. I am more interested in the highlighted portion of that quote: “… if a law says that it is illegal to share Christ with anyone, the Great Commission supersedes that law.”

No. This is the cultish teaching that has caused so much misery in the world, destroying marriages, destabilizing governments and, not incidentally, getting nuisances like Allen Chau killed; this claim is an exemplar for the sickness that makes Christianity odious.

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