YouTube user attacks Christian missions

[ryanmercer]

First let me say, I believe this to be the most relevant subforum as it's a video that's likely to cause a lot of non-Christians or those investigating Christianity to be on the fence and struggle with faith.

www - youtube - com/watch?v=3MqwyynaX6c

In the above video titled "Why Christian Mission Trips Don't Actually Help." an atheist slams a government funded PUBLIC EDUCATION program but baits by making the topic of his video about Christian missions, in the comment section is atheist after atheist slamming Christians and Christianity. Currently I'm the only active person defending Christianity on the thread. I'd appreciate some help in offering friendly, polite and kind replies to the atheists and active Christian-bashers including thumbing down negative comments and reporting the hateful and harassing ones where appropriate.


Please help me to positively portray Christianity and offer any experiences you've had on missions of your own so we can better help these atheists understand the purpose of missions. I'd encourage you all to give your personal testimony and relate any mission experiences so that if non-believers or those new to the faith stumble upon the video they have more than just the Devil's lies spewed in the video and the comment but instead of a counter, have the truth available.

 

[USCGrad90]

This video lumps mission trips into a single category and assumes it's better to not go and try to help or just send money instead of going.
1) Our church has a group that makes annual trips to Russia to work with the local church there and orphanages with children discarded by their society. In some cases, there are children who just need to be held, touched, and loved to make a difference in whether they live or die. That one week is enough time to build a relationship and the promise of a return trip and communication in between helps these children have a better life.
2) Some of the doctors in our church go to South America Periodically to take medicine and provide free medical care during the week they are there. They usually pack an extra suitcase with pharmacy samples from their office or medicine donated by the church. This does not happen every year, but one week can make a difference in people living or dying, especially when some of the basic medicines and treatments we take for granted are seldom available in some of the places visited.
3) I chaperoned a group of kids to New Orleans many years ago and we walked down Bourbon Street. We ran into a guy with no shirt, yelling at us, telling us to leave his city. After our minister started talking to him, we found out he had aids and had lost hope. He was amazed we spent time talking to him and was overwhelmed with our minister's compassion. We managed to direct him to a local shelter and resources to help him that he otherwise would not have found in his state.
For every 100 or 1000 kids that go on a church mission trip - are there maybe 1 or 2 that decide to make a long term commitment? If you eliminate church mission trips, does that number possibly reduce to 0?
These trips affect the people going. Often those people want to do more to help their own community when they come back. So it's not just about one week in another place - it's about providing an experience that can shape a person's outlook on the world around them and their compassion for others.
Many of the local pastors, teachers, and families visited on these trips would gladly tell you that having people there for one week to do work and help is more than they have ever gotten before. I am sure many would say that it made a significant difference to them versus no one having ever come to help out at all.

 

[Harry3142]

When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, atheists of his time promptly used it to attack all religious belief, especially Christianity. Interestingly, it was Charles Darwin who came to the defense of Christianity, even though some of its more fundamentalist believers had attacked him vehemently. He stated that if ever anyone found himself on a foreign shore, it would be wise if he hoped that a Christian missionary had been there before him.

Even such a person as Voltaire wanted his servants and business connections to be Christians. He asserted that he felt safe when he had Christians around him, because he did not have to fear for his property or his safety.

Sigmund Freud stated that if a nation was well-educated it could do quite well without any religious belief. He believed that the greater the education people had, the more civilized those people would be. He lived to see the flag of the most scientific and well-educated nation in Europe at that time flying over his beloved Vienna, Austria. It was the swastika.

 

[Rawtheran]

When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, atheists of his time promptly used it to attack all religious belief, especially Christianity. Interestingly, it was Charles Darwin who came to the defense of Christianity, even though some of its more fundamentalist believers had attacked him vehemently. He stated that if ever anyone found himself on a foreign shore, it would be wise if he hoped that a Christian missionary had been there before him.

Even such a person as Voltaire wanted his servants and business connections to be Christians. He asserted that he felt safe when he had Christians around him, because he did not have to fear for his property or his safety.

Sigmund Freud stated that if a nation was well-educated it could do quite well without any religious belief. He believed that the greater the education people had, the more civilized those people would be. He lived to see the flag of the most scientific and well-educated nation in Europe at that time flying over his beloved Vienna, Austria. It was the swastika.

You know there are some witnesses claim that Charles Darwin had a Bible at his side when he died, and he wrote in the Bible that he was wrong about his theories, and was praying to God for forgiveness.

 

[Harry3142]

You know there are some witnesses claim that Charles Darwin had a Bible at his side when he died, and he wrote in the Bible that he was wrong about his theories, and was praying to God for forgiveness.

Charles Darwin was very open in his welcoming anyone who could disprove his Origin of Species to do so. And because of scientific discoveries which have been made since his death, the orthodox teaching of evolution has encountered serious problems.

In that teaching this planet suffered an extinction level event (ELE) 65 million years ago, but since then has been relatively safe for the various species of animals to evolve without major problems. However, impact craters found since then, and dated to long after the ELE of 65 million years ago, are scientific evidence that this planet has suffered at least 5 ELE's from meteor impacts alone in this time frame. And when the numerous supervolcanic eruptions which have also occurred are added to that, it becomes obvious that species of animals have been erased from this planet on almost a routine schedule.

The reason for their being ELE's is actually easy to recognize. Not only have all of these events caused massive destruction at the time of the particular event, but they have also all caused this planet to become a virtual walk-in freezer for years, or even decades, following the event. When asked how animals could have survived such cold conditions for those years, the answer of the diehard evolutionists has been, "If no animals survived, they couldn't have evolved into where we are today. So since we are here, some of them must have survived." That's a circular argument, which has no business being used as a scientific explanation.

 

[Gabriel Nucius]

Good luck with the YouTube. It is full of zionist shills and gatekeepers.

 

[parsley]

Thanks for standing in defense of people who have given up more elite career goals to care for people.

Missionaries I have known:

Nurse who treated villages in Nigeria that were dying off with waves of communicable diseases.

Doctor who coordinates surgical teams to offer free surgery for groupings of ailments -- when a whole area has a common problem but does not have the resources to treat people. They are in and out quickly, and their focus is medical.

Several teachers, one who visits shepherd boys that are too far from town to learn how to read-- they teach the people how to read their own languages. One who ran a school with a large staff.

Two who built water wells in villages where people were getting cholera and other diseases from their water sources, or traveling too far to get water.

A teacher who, after school, teaches kids how to make a living through woodworking and sewing, and also took in a live-in guest in need. They have only returned to their home country a couple times in almost a decade.

Several who were invited to teach English in other countries.

I have also visited countries where kids grew up with programs like Operation Christmas Child, and they spoke fondly of the gifts, even though their families and countries adhered to religions that do not tolerate Christianity well.

The short mission trips for youth take on a different slant, as they are often created to teach kids about volunteerism. But these last a week and the group usually stays together, helping build housing or whatever the project is.

 

[dazed]

The reason for their being ELE's is actually easy to recognize. Not only have all of these events caused massive destruction at the time of the particular event, but they have also all caused this planet to become a virtual walk-in freezer for years, or even decades, following the event. When asked how animals could have survived such cold conditions for those years, the answer of the diehard evolutionists has been, "If no animals survived, they couldn't have evolved into where we are today. So since we are here, some of them must have survived." That's a circular argument, which has no business being used as a scientific explanation.

So, how did the animals survived those cold days from a non-evolutionist's view?

God populated the Earth with new species after each ELE?