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I have often heard statements like: “There is so much anti-Christian persecution in Indonesia, isn’t it foolish for you to go there?”
And I would reply: “There are 17,000 islands in Indonesia – so I have no problem finding one where it is peaceful!” The truth is that I will probably have no problem finding 16,999 other Indonesian islands which are peaceful!
A little understanding of geography will help us to realize that Indonesia is a very large country (the 4th most populated in the world) that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the north of Australia (the Indonesian province of Papua), so that religious unrest in one part of the country will hardly be felt in most other parts of the country. In fact, we who watch CNN are more likely to know of the trouble in Indonesia, than most Indonesians.
If statements like these come from “ordinary” Christians, then it is understandable. But often these statements come from people who are involved in missions. Satan has indeed managed to take advantage of our ignorance and scare us from reaching 240 million wonderful peaceful Indonesians
On other occasions, I have heard statements like “You better avoid China now, it’s flooding badly. I saw it on news last night!” If indeed China is flooding badly, then it’s time to build another Ark because China is almost 10,000,000 square kilometres!
A little understanding of geography will help us to understand that even if one entire city of over a million people in China is covered with flood waters, there are another 100 cities with a few hundred million people in China who are not affected!
Businessmen, without God, have for centuries gone to the remotest, inhospitable places looking for “gold” but missionaries have for the flimsiest reasons avoided “eternal riches”!
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