Does God Really Want Missionaries to Risk Their Lives?

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On Saturday, a gang kidnapped 17 North American missionaries in Haiti as the party returned from an orphanage in a suburb of Port-au-Prince. Since then, the group, known as 400 Mawozo, has demanded a ransom of $17 million for the victims, who include five men, seven women, and five children. While many locals have been kidnapped in recent years as security on the country’s roads has been increasingly threatened, this incident has drawn significant international attention. This kidnapping comes roughly two months after US troops withdrew from Afghanistan. America’s departure and the chaos that ensued led many expats, including aid workers and missionaries, to leave the country. Anna Hampton is the author of Facing Danger: A Guide Through Risk, which is based on her doctoral dissertation at Trinity Seminary in Newburg. She’s been in full-time ministry for 28 years, more than 17 of those years in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and other parts of Central Asia and the Middle East. She and her family are now based in the US, but still doing work in Central Asia, so Anna Hampton is a pseudonym. Hampton joined global media manager Morgan Lee and executive editor Ted Olsen to discuss how the Bible discusses risk, what has shaped Western Christians’ perspectives on this issue, and how saviorism affects how we make these decisions. What is Quick to Listen? Read more. Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow this week's hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Faith Ndlovu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:29.6	On Saturday, a gang kidnapped 17 North American missionaries in Haiti as the party returned from an orphanage in a suburb of Fort-au-Prince. Since then, the group, known as 400 Mewozo, has demanded a ransom of $17 million for the victims, which include five men, seven women, and five children.
0:41.7	While many vocals have been kidnapped in recent years, the security on the country's roads has been increasingly threatened.
0:47.2	This incident has drawn significant international attention.
0:50.9	This kidnapping comes roughly too much after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
0:55.3	America's departure and the chaos that ensued led many expats, including aid workers and missionaries, to leave the country.
1:01.7	We wanted to talk about how Christians and ministry should evaluate risk.
1:05.8	What is worth putting our lives on the line for?
1:08.1	And how do we know when we're acting selfishly or selflessly?
1:16.1	You're listening to Quick to Listen where we go be on hashtags and hot takes discuss a major
1:20.6	cultural event. I'm Morgan Lee, Global Media Manager at Christianity Today. And I'm Ted Olson. I'm
1:26.1	executive editor of Christianity Today. And I'm Ted Olson. I'm executive editor of Christianity today.
1:38.9	All right.
1:39.7	So we have tons of amazingly thorny questions to get into Ted.
1:43.5	But I want to do our gut check today on this particular kidnapping that has drawn a lot of attention this week.
1:50.7	Obviously, we've done a quick to listen podcasts about the situation in Haiti more broadly.
1:55.8	One of the things we talked about in that podcast was that our attention is pretty much unhady when things
2:01.2	go wrong. So here we are again. But that's kind of, you know, where news is as well. We kind of talk
2:07.3	about things that are out of the ordinary and problematic. And you look at things that maybe need
2:12.2	addressing or fixing. The broader questions that this raised for me was not directly about kind of Haiti,
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