This past Sunday our pastor read a letter from a Heart’s Cry missionaries in Myanmar.  They are literally waiting for a knock on the door.  Another missionary couple will be having a baby soon and because it is absolute chaos and there is zero access to any healthcare, never mind a hospital, they are going to birth the baby in their apartment alone.  The couple who wrote the note have two young daughters, 3 and six months old. They told several stories of several people they knew who went to buy food and never came back. The man was found shot in an alley.  Another time, the military roused up a small group having tea. They are not sure how it is all going to work out or if they will be let out, but they are sure of who their God is.

I received a spiritual gut punch, a left uppercut and then a right cross, and I was down.  Let me explain.

As it turned out I was watching the service via the livestream.  I had lost track of time that morning so by the time I had realized it was time to go it was too late.  One thing I hate more than anything is being late and losing a game. Because I was lazy I decided to watch the livestream and that is when I heard about how the bad situation in Myanmar and how it was terrifying for the missionaries.

Americans, and I suppose we could include Canadiens, are spoiled.  We are cowering in our homes because of a flu virus. Yes, a flu virus. We wear our masks in church. We sit six feet apart, either every other row or taped off sections of pews. We don’t feel guilty if we watch the livestream because we have bought the lie of the political Left and Big Eva, like Russell Moore of the ERLC and The Gospel Coalition, that being safe is showing how we love people, being Christlike, by staying home. We are worse than spoiled, we are pathetic.

We have blacks demanding reparations for slavery from whites whom the majority of which their ancestors probably didn’t own slaves, and the SBC leaders pledging to so such a thing. Big Eva blaming conservative pastors like John MacArthur for spa shootings. Big Eva telling us (paraphrase) that we inherently racist if we are white skinned, misogynistic if we won’t let Beth Moore preach in our churches, or just plain evil if we dare to question anyone in the Evangelical Industrial Complex.  We have clownish entertainers pretending to be pastors parading around in designer clothing and shoes, telling their whimsical stories about their encounters with Jesus. The biblical term would be practicing discernment.

Missionaries in Myanmar, and other countries that are closed to missionaries like Senegal, should be a wakeup call for the American church. People are really laying their lives on the line while we are entertained by leaders riding on roller coasters and trains.