A Deformed Dog
You may have
never heard of the word, ¡°deformed dog,¡± unlike a deformed child, but since
this is not a thesis submitted to a professional scholastic journal, I¡¯ll move
on. I¡¯ll get to the point without any detailed explanation believing that most
people have experienced the case of a deformed child directly or indirectly. There
may be other reasons for abnormal dogs, but in many cases, it results from
inbreeding. Cunning dog merchants try to increase the price by making a pedigree
through inbreeding including breeding of the parent dog with its puppies.
According to
the statistics, 75% of the 7 million dogs in
To prevent
this, dog experts claim that we should seek outbreeding.
Dogs should find partners that have no blood relationship, or at least a far relational
distance within the same breed. If it can smoothly happen, a dog¡¯s appearance
may not be controlled but still their health would be very good.
There is a
mission organization I am deeply involved in. It is a national evangelical
organization called CBMC consisting of Christian businessmen. Founded in
I often see that
even the church and mission organizations come to repeat formal events,
meaninglessly flocking together through inbreeding and forgetting why it was
that they started. Also problems naturally cased in this environment can no
longer be hidden. At times, when things like the local president bringing temporarily
useful workers in from his own church to increase the number keep being
repeated, fundamental problems can arise.
Then what is
the solution? The method implied here and there in the Bible and known through
the common sense is outbreeding. In other words, if
the church or organization wants to stay healthy persistently, new blood should
be transfused unceasingly. It means the adding of new believers or guiding and
encouraging those who have been to church for a long time but are not really
Christians so that they can find their own purpose and calling. One more
important thing is to suggest a direction to people who became Christians, but
wandered because they have yet to see a good model on how to serve.
Going back
to the report of
As different
colors are more beautiful than just black and white, I hope that churches,
mission organizations, dogs and we all live excitingly balancing each one¡¯s own
color given to us by the Creator.