I
like Ann Coulter. There is no “but” after that. I like Ann Coulter,
period. There are many people reacting with hostility and anger toward
her over
her latest
column about the doctors in Atlanta who are infected with Ebola.
In her column, Ann asks, “What was the point?” She goes on to write
Your
country is like your family. We’re supposed to take care of our own
first. The same Bible that commands us to “go ye into all the world and
preach the Gospel” also says: “For there will never cease to be poor in
the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to
your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’”
Right there in Texas, near where Dr. Brantly left his wife and children
to fly to Liberia and get Ebola, is one of the poorest counties in the
nation, Zavala County — where he wouldn’t have risked making his wife a
widow and his children fatherless.
I am neither angry nor outraged by Ann Coulter’s column.
I have written several times that American Christians have a mission
field in their own backyard that too many are ignoring. Too many
Christians send their kids on church run beach trips to Mexico where
they hammer nails for a few days while working on their tan. I think
Protestants should be pouring money into building church run schools
that the poor can go to for free or at great discounts, emulating the
Catholic Church. I think Christians should take up the cross in inner
cities where too many liberal Christians preach a body nourishing
social gospel that never feeds their soul.
I also think had St. Thomas stayed in Jerusalem instead of journeying
to India, many Indians would have never found salvation through Christ.
Had Paul stayed in Tarsus instead of going on his missionary journeys,
we would not have his contribution to the body of faith or the churches
he planted along the way.
I also think that American Christians can do more than just domestic
missions. It should not be a binary decision. We should emulate the
apostles who went into all the world to share the gospel instead of
only focusing on our own.
Christianity has been a stabilizing influence around the world. Had
Christian missionaries stayed in their home countries, the world would
be worse off. Is the faith so small that Christ cannot spare one doctor
to Liberia?
Should Jim Elliott have never gone into the jungle? He was savagely
killed there. His death inspired countless Christians to follow in his
footsteps delivering the gospel to places it had not been delivered.
Not every Christian survives. Many are martyred. We, as Christians, (
Red
State cont)
