Father please forgive them for they know not wat they are talking about. All of the people here who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are blind. Blind because they cant see beyond what He has to offer for all of us. Were are all creation of him but only some of us are his sons and daughters, you see my dear friends God is like the air, we cant see him but we know He is there. My condolences are with the Pastors family and my church Lighthouse Babtist Church in Skyline are praying for the remaining 22 missionaries out there. People have to understand that being a missionary is not an easy thing to do, to risk your life for the one who died for you, you think that He doesnt see that? when He suffered for us? died on the cross? His Precious blood shed for people like us? sinners, liars, ungrateful,selfish, people. And yet the funny thing is that there is people out there that dont believe in Him at all, that mock us christians and demand to know where he is. Like what kind of question is that. Where is YOUR GOD? for people who believe like that i will pray for you very much, dear friend dont be blind Satan has you in his claws, making you believe God is not there when He is. He is around us and watching us, watching us give His word to people so they can go to Heaven, so they can repent of theirs sins and so that their name can be on the book of life. As for the Muslim people our only job is to pray for those brave ones that go into the mission field and give out the gospel, We cant force them to believe in what we believe only but to pray for them for one day they will be judged. Our prayers are with all my brethren and sisters in Christ, May He Bless you this day and lets keep giving the seed.

As far as the “way forward”, I’m not sure there is a “forward” in this situation. The way forward was to avoid this situation. Twenty three individuals desired to do something stupid. The reasons for this are nolonger important.
The way forward for some of them will be death. Maby all. What we want doesn’t matter.
What I wonder now, is how many additional deaths will be caused by the actions of a few.
Will the ROK send in a rescue mission? If it does, now many brave ROK Soldiers will die. To save the lives of those who either do not know or do not care about the consequences of their actions.
If the ROK does a payoff, how many people will die because of the weapons the payoff will buy?
No matter what the course of action taken next. More people will die because of a group of Christians that went forward where they shouldn’t. Without a care of the Consequences of their actions.

Very selfish of them or very stupid. Take your pick.

But the time for a “way forward” past when they got on the bus.

Yu, I can understand discrimination and prejudice. As a White Man in Korea, I felt it from time to time. I felt it in the Military in the states from Hispanics and African-American Supervisiors. I don’t care much for either of those two Races these days. Although I have had friends from both.
So don’t worry Yu, every group is hated my some other group. But Americans are hated by all. So it would seem.

Does this mean that Jesus don’t like those Talibans who are raping those poor but utterly stupid Korean missionaries right now?

If Korean Christians had any real faith, then they should be sending MORE misionaries to Afgan to make a point that Jesus still loves their murderous and rapist asses. The total lack of faith that Korean Christians are displaying is totally demoralizing!