03-28-2012, 05:42 PM
Anyhow, why travel around the world to recruit members? How about recruiting members in the Good Ol' USA? I don't think it's about increasing membership so much as about believing that anyone who is not Christian is a lost soul. It's a very patronizing view of other cultures. And if one does insist on doing "the Lord's work" in dangerous places, one ought to assume that either the Lord will protect you or else you are meant to be a martyr.