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Shoot the Wounded

February 21, 2008
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I have a friend who spent a considerable portion of his career in the Army. He said there were a lot of things he learned in the Army that he should have learned in the church, things like what to do with the wounded. He said in Vietnam the enemy would often wound a U.S. soldier instead of killing him, because they knew that it would take two guys to help the wounded soldier. To it one to help the wounded soldier bind the lines and another to look after it. So when they wounded a soldier they took three guys out of the battle. My friend said that in the church we just shoot our wounded and pretend they were never there. We think it's a lot less trouble and it makes us feel in a spurious way that there was no wound there in the first place. And Jesus swept. I'm Steve Brown, a key life that worked. You think about that. Visit Key Life on the Internet at keylife.org