by Ralph and Roberta Winter
Excerpts from their articles in the Foundations Course Reader give a biblical perspective on the role of God’s people in relation to refugees fleeing dangerous or unlivable conditions,
By mechanisms of going or coming and whether voluntarily or involuntarily, it would seem that God is in the mission business whether God’s people fully understand that fact or not. Sometimes God’s people go, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes kicking and screaming like Jonah did. Sometimes the people who did not know God came voluntarily, like the Queen of Sheba. Today, they may come involuntarily, like the people arriving in our country as refugees.
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