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September 2, 2007

Hostages' Pastor: 'Remorse is the Face of the Church'

Interview with Park Eun-jo: 'I don't want this to be a stumbling block for missions."

The 19 South Koreans freed by the Taliban returned to Seoul Sunday as the church that sent the group fields critical remarks for sending members to such a volatile country.

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Comments

Is their an mailing address where we can write to the Saemmul Church or an e-mail address?

Too often well intentioned Christians with a sense of mission forget that they are to be "wise as serpents" as well as "innocent as doves".

To Osama Bin Laden,

Who is this uncircumcised Saudi, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Talibans/Al-Qaeda to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give you into our hands.

David