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Latin American Evangelicals' Life Just Got Harder

Pat Robertson's assassination call is more than just an ill-considred remark.

by Kenneth D. MacHarg | posted 8/24/2005 12:00AM

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In fact, for most evangelical Latin Americans, Robertson is not their spokesman, nor do his sometimes radical, insensitive positions represent those of local churches, pastors or leaders.

Latin American churches are raising up their own pastors and leaders who strongly speak prophetic words about politics and social conditions in their countries. They address concerns from their own experience and knowledge of their culture with biblical understanding and the support of their own church members.

They don't need a foreign TV evangelist calling for the assassination of their own leaders.

How embarrassing!

Kenneth D. MacHarg is a missionary with the Latin America Mission serving in Costa Rica. The opinions in this article are his own and not necessarily those of LAM or Christianity Today.

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See also today's Weblog, "Why You Can't Stop Pat Robertson."

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