Posted by
Red Patriot on Monday, July 06, 2009 12:00:00 AM
While
millions of White, American Black, African, Korean and multiracial congregations get together in
their churches to worship on Sunday morning all across the USA, to learn about God, how they should know God and
deal with sin in their lives, the same is also true for Hispanic congregations
as well.
Although all
Christians strive to live a godly life and avoid sin with God’s help, there is
something that you won’t hear on a Sunday morning at a Spanish speaking service:
The decision to return to their country and stop breaking the law that brought
them here in the first place. I bet you’re
thinking, “All these Hispanics that are Christians came here illegally?” Well not all but most.
Consider the
demographics of Hispanic Pentecostal, Baptist and Catholic churches. These church attendees are usually not the
wealthiest otherwise they would be able to pay their fees and come here
legally. I am not saying we shouldn’t
consider some reform. But we all know
the law, let’s obey it. Why should
Hispanics from Central and South America “cut in line” while so many people
from other countries wait and do things the right way? No, they are the downtrodden, most likely of
little means in their own country and they are desperate to make money and send
it home to their families so they feel entitled to cross the border.
They may have
their own church or they may rent a hall or be a small ministry of a larger
church. What would be the loving thing
to tell them, “I’ll give you money and clothes” and support the breaking of the
law or that lovingly, “You broke the law”, please consider how this effects
your Christian walk?
In the name
of political correctness and trying to be a good Samaritan we offer them free
English classes, food and clothes, not that we shouldn’t help the less
fortunate. That is not what I am saying.
They come here for a better life but they still broke the law. When we speed, we usually get a ticket, we rob
we go to jail. But yet of the millions
that come here with falsified documents such as Social Security and green cards,
some actually use these documents to get their actual citizenship. Most of them just hide out and work. The government condones their breaking of the
law by giving them citizenship.
I know that
some want amnesty, and others just want deportation, I am not going to discuss
the possible solutions, because the repercussions are just as costly as the
solutions. I just want to rectify the
original error. If I went to any other
country illegally, I would not be treated in the same way, with the red carpet
rolled out. I would be imprisoned at
minimum and then summarily be deported with the possibility of some emotional
and physical harassment.
Why aren’t we
talking to our Hispanic friends and church members? Are we so afraid of liberals, of retaliation,
of being labeled bigots? Well if it
means I am not paying for free health care and education for illegal aliens
that have no right to be here than I do without papers in their country, then
call me a racist. Many are also afraid that when we do speak up that no
one will take us seriously especially those in government who might be
inundated with complaints to zoning and Sheriff’s let alone ICE agents who are
overwhelmed.
If all the
Christian Hispanics that came here illegally could put their faith in action, they would consider
returning to their homes in obedience to the law and God. Then we actually might be able to save ourselves
from the deportation costs let alone the money it would cost to give them
amnesty.
But rarely
does the sense of entitlement give anyone the desire to say “I don’t deserve
this” or “ I was wrong,” in fact far from it.