Me and one of the guys I work with were at a local service station today and he made a comment to me that just grated every bit of me.
His comment was, “I can’t understand what they are saying in there it sounds like a bunch of ducks quacking”.
“They’re Vietnamese”, I responded.
He said “ya whatever, I just can’t understand them”.
I agree you can’t understand them.
The conversation goes on and he tells me that “they have some kinda Buddha shrine set-up in there and I don’t much care for that, but hey that’s for them, it ain’t for me.”
I almost responded ” hey it ain’t your store, it’s their belief and their culture.”
How many times have we seen an idol or shrine set up to a false god and we just say, “hey that’s for them, not for me”?
Or how many times have you wanted to defend someone because of their beliefs?
I don’t believe in attacking anyone because of how the believe.
But I do know for fact that we are to share the Gospel of Jesus, with everyone…..even Buddhist.
As we don’t know each other, maybe it easier for me to consider another side. I think it appropriate to be offended by the worship of other gods. I believe God is offended. Political correctness has taken the voice away from many good people and good believers in “the way”. God bless you and your ministry.
Hey Archie thanks for stopping by again. In the scripture it tells us to have no other god before Him, so ya he is offended, but he still loves them. To me it’s not so much as political correctness as it is love, worshiping a false idol isn’t any greater a sin than selling drugs or looking at another woman with lust in your heart, we should still be respectful to each other. The guy I was with pretty much wrote them off as going to hell without even the consideration of telling them the Gospel story, that’s my biggest issue, I may not have conveyed that very well.