I'll admit there's a danger in taking kids across the border into Mexico. Is our ministry irresponsible in taking work groups into Mexico to work with the poor? Many have questioned our wisdom in doing this. Some have called us irresponsible.
As I lifted Maria, a dying woman, and placed her in the back of my Volkswagen van, I might have been called irresponsible because she was dying of AIDS and her clothing was very wet with sweat. My bare arms were wet too. Are there times where being responsible in doing good is seen by others as being irresponsible?
Several years ago Efren pulled an unconscious man from a burning car and saved his life. The drivers door was jammed and the flames were hot and the gas tank was soon to explode. Efren thought this to be a responsible act. Others in the crowd I'm sure thought him to be unwise and irresponsible.
Is it irresponsible for a man to take his family and move from affluent and "safe" America to a foreign country full of very real dangers, simply to share the Gospel with a people enslaved by darkness. Responsible or irresponsible?
Is it responsible to trust God and His Word and act in faith?
Is it responsible to trust God and do His will wherever He sends you?
Can God protect His own? Does He?
These are hard and painful questions for the many weak and immature Christians here in comfortable America. Those Christians professing a faith they don't practice seem quick to judge those few who are out practicing their faith.
When it comes to preaching "trust God," the Evangelical Church in America does well, but when it comes to practicing that "trust," well, lets be honest; that's another thing ... the few Believers who practices that trust are often seen as being irresponsible.
As a Believer I'm asked by God to be responsible in doing His will even if my brethren see my actions as irresponsible.
So we'll continue to enter Tijuana, dodge the bullets and keep on ministering.
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