CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FAILURE

The Washington Post is reporting on a Virginia based Christian relief organization's duplicity in its efforts to raise funds for tsunami victims in South Asia. World Magazine is following the story. The bottom-line here is this: another Christian ministry has stepped in something which has an extremely unpleasant odor.

I offer two reasons for this kind of failure: first, their motivation were not genuine compassion or mercy but evangelism; second, and most important, they were probably caught up in the fund raising competition going on since the quake.

According to reports (and I'm not a fan of the Washington Post) the plight of tsunami orphans was exploited in an official fund raising campaign by the ministry. If proven true, the fallout will be extensive for evangelism in Indonesia ... Imman's are all ready on their soapboxes to denounce the entire American effort.

Oh the webs we weave when we first set out to deceive! We can now expect to hear politicos demanding controls and legislation on all Christian fund raising. We can now expect this to be used as propoganda throughout the Muslim world, not only against our greater body of faith but as proof there is another Crusade in progress.