{"id":453,"date":"2007-07-05T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/07\/05\/on-the-fbf-and-illegal-aliens-reprise\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T05:13:00","slug":"on-the-fbf-and-illegal-aliens-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/07\/05\/on-the-fbf-and-illegal-aliens-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"on the FBF and illegal aliens &#8211; reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received the latest copy of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Frontline<\/span> today. This is the one that includes the articles accompanying the annual resolutions. <a href=\"http:\/\/ebaptist.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/on-fbf-and-illegal-aliens-i-am-member.html\">Earlier<\/a>, I was quite critical of the last sentence of the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The article is much better than the resolution and clearly spells out some of the ethical (and possibly legal) pitfalls dealing with illegal aliens who might be converted and attempt to be involved in a local church.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I still remain convinced that the concluding sentence of the resolution is too weak.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry to illegal people of any kind involves huge stumbling blocks immediately. If a person repents and comes to Christ, they must really bring forth works fit for repentance. For a person guilty of a crime (any crime, including illegal immigration) the number one stumbling block is to make their crime right, whatever the consequences to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry to illegal aliens is fraught with difficulty at the point of conversion because of this stumbling block. In my view, real faith in Christ will evidence itself if the convert is willing to repent of his lawbreaking and make things right.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry to professing Christian illegal aliens is hard as well &#8211; they may be genuinely converted, but may have foolishly justified illegal activity for one reason or another. Regardless of the situation, I don&#8217;t believe tolerating these offenses is any help to brethren guilty of them.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>Don Johnson<br \/>Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the latest copy of Frontline today. This is the one that includes the articles accompanying the annual resolutions. Earlier, I was quite critical of the last sentence of the resolution. The article is much better than the resolution and clearly spells out some of the ethical (and possibly legal) pitfalls dealing with illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-7j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}