The young man who sent it to me said: "Sometimes, I really wonder why anyone else who lives elsewhere in the world, (excepting Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and other such countries) would risk visiting the U.S.? And why would otherwise intelligent Americans put up with this sort of thing?"
Another, also a homeschooling dad said: "When we delegate our job of our brother's keeper the charge Jesus Christ gave us himself to the state what do we expect. Whether believers in
Manhattan? Was this lady a part of the body of Jesus Christ? Is she contacted the church in Manhattan would they have helped? In this day of personal affluence and prosperity I wonder if we can even care for the sick. This was a country that loved their Lord and knew nobody could rule in his place. But now it seems there is a new Lord and people no longer believe in Jesus Christ as the King of Kings and Lord of lords. Now Jesus is your personal savior that you choose for your own personal peace and affluence. And now you have doctors for your health, the state for your welfare obligations to the poor, and the state also to be your parents and your children's parents, to be your very Lord."
I echo their thoughts and say: "whether they are part of the Body or not, they should be taken care of in a hospitable fashion. But not by the state. I'm thinking in a theonomic world, there would be church contacts at every hospital which would be able to step in and intervene in a situation like this. The strangers in our midst need to be treated with appropriate hospitality. This would speak more to an unbelieving world than many, many Billy Grahme type crusades and the like. How do we move more in that direction? Of course, if the church won't do it, the state will, and the more the state does outside of its biblically ordained sphere of duty, the more we lose our freedom.
If we won't be responsible, then we won't be free.
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