Dear Editor,
I was surprised by the tone and content of Ian Cooper’s letter on immigration in the January en.
From the beginning, migration has been a part of the human experience (see God’s decision to disperse people from Babel), and the gospel has spread by migration (for example, the church dispersing from Jerusalem in Acts). It is clear from Revelation that God’s vision is for people from all languages, tribes and nations to worship Him – so from a gospel perspective immigration is something the UK church should welcome with as much enthusiasm as we applaud missionaries undertaking cross-cultural evangelism overseas (who after all are also migrants). God commands us to love the alien (and the widow and orphan) – so instead of fretting about immigration, far better to befriend immigrants.
