WE DON’T WANT THEM
Early Lutheran Missionaries in the West Indies served the Danish landlords who ruled the islands, now the United States territory of the Virgin Islands. One of the pastors asked, “What of the Negro slaves in the fields? Who ministers to them?” He was discourteously told, “If you want to preach to them, go out into the fields where they work. We don’t want them in our church.” The pastor did so, and today large Lutheran congregations in the Virgin Islands testify to the pioneer preacher who went into the fields and into the slaves quarters to preach the freedom the Christ brought. From Let Me Illustrate
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