The Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston along with Christian communities in Atlanta, Seattle, and Detroit initiated a series of sermons that have been designed to produce an ecumenical reconciliation between Christianity and Islam. In addition to the sermons, the Sunday school lessons centered on the inspired teachings of the Prophet Mohammad.
Qurans were placed in the pews next to the Bibles.
“In 2001, like most Americans, we were pretty awakened to the true Islamic presence in the world and in the United States,” says Jon Stallsmith, the outreach minister at Grace Fellowship. “Jesus says we should love our neighbors. We can’t do that without having a relationship with them.”
Stallsmith maintains that a rapprochement between Muslims and Christians can be achieved by the fact that Jesus is mentioned twenty-five times in the Quran.
Jesus in the Quran is neither the only-begotten Son of God nor the Messiah who was divinely appointed to restore the House of David. He is rather viewed as a prophet who was appointed by Allah to prepare mankind for the coming of Mohammad.
Nowhere in scripture are we told to embrace the teachings of paganism, but rather expose them to the light.
Friday, February 4, 2011
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