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A troubling question: Has Southern Baptist mission work among Palestinians been a bad investment?

Who, especially among the Muslim countries, would be inclined to welcome those who supported the ethnic cleansing of a people, be it from an act of commission, by their active support or by an act of omission, by their silence?

Jimmy R. Coleman (JRon)

Troub, short for Troublemaker, is the well-earned nickname of a fellow I got to know some years back.  You say “up” and “hot,” he says “down” and “cold.

Probably comes from his stormy days while studying at one of our fine Southern Baptist seminaries until he got sidetracked as a backsliding Christian. I have not given up hope that he will return to the straight and narrow, but whatever the case will be, we keep in touch, even though at times he can test the patience of Job.

Just the other day, for instance, he threw a verbal stick through the spokes of my bicycle while I was taking a leisurely ride.

“JRon, here’s a doozy of a curve ball I’ll throw in your direction,” Troublemaker said.  “How many Palestinian ‘lost souls’ have Southern Baptists managed to get saved since modern-day Israel located itself on Palestinian land? Before you answer, and the reason I ask, I think I can make a good case to show that for Southern Baptists it has been a bad investment.”

“I have no idea,” I replied. “Besides, saving just one soul makes it a good investment.”

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