{"id":2485,"date":"2015-10-21T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:32:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:32:50","slug":"international-missions-board-break-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2485","title":{"rendered":"International Missions Board: Break the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Platt, the brand new head of the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s International Missions Board, has <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:Qhc61NXkynIJ:sbcvoices.com\/calling-and-training-in-the-new-missions-paradigm\/+&#038;cd=1&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\">some helpful suggestions<\/a> for members who want to help the home-team overcome the severe budget shortfall that has them calling missionaries home.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Business is international. Men and women cruise the globe at 35,000 feet, going places missionaries cannot. What could you do?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Transport sensitive Christian <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">materials that cannot be mailed or sent electronically. Firewalls run by local governments block access to training materials, Bible translations<\/span>, and other forms of support. This could be as simple as meeting someone for supper and passing the information along.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color:red\">In other words, smuggle-in contraband literature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>\n<p>Allow your temporary housing to serve as a meeting site for Bible study groups and churches.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Use your locally-registered business to provide legitimate visas for <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">missionaries who cannot acquire them otherwise<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color:red\">In other words, use your business as a front for illegal activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>\n<p>Learn the language through multiple visits and help teach in areas where the IMB has not placed anyone.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s allright because, <i>you know<\/i>, warriors for the Kingdom aren&#8217;t bound by man&#8217;s law, only &#8212; dum-da-dum-dum &#8212; <i>His<\/i> law.  I&#8217;ll bet that if you suggested to a roomful of these yahoos that the reason they aren&#8217;t welcome might be that they deal underhandedly, you&#8217;d draw nothing but blank stares.  They really <i>are<\/i> that self-unaware.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> &#0160; This post is no longer at the <i>SBC Voices<\/i> Web site, so the link above goes to Google&#8217;s cached version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Platt, the brand new head of the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s International Missions Board, has some helpful suggestions for members who want to help the home-team overcome the severe budget shortfall that has them calling missionaries home. Business is international. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}