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作者: Hussein Hajji Wario
日期: 08.09.2010
Category: 宣教的经文
I received an email recently from Dove World Outreach Center, a Florida church known mostly to the unbelieving world not for its proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ but for its stance on Islam, most notably for its call to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11 this year. The email states:
International Burn a Koran Day
Dove World Outreach Center needs your support!
City of Gainesville denies burn permit – BUT WE WILL STILL BURN KORANS
RBC Bank calls in mortgage – BUT WE WILL STILL BURN KORANS
Cottons All-Lines cancels insurance – BUT WE WILL STILL BURN KORANS
We will proceed with the Koran Burning Event, Saturday 9/11, 6-9pm, as planned.
RBC Bank called in our mortgage with a limited time to pay it off. Now Cottons All-lines Insurance has also cancelled our commercial insurance on our property putting our mortgage in immediate default. We need to raise the $140,000 to pay off the RBC loan immediately.
We need your help! Please send as generous a donation as possible.
Make checks payable to Dove World Outreach Center, 5805 NW 37th Street, Gainesville, FL 32653 or use our Paypal donation link on the main page of our http://www.doveworld.org/ website here.. If you would like to mail us a Koran we will add it to the fire. We invite you to sign up for our newsletter at http://www.doveworld.org/ top of the main home page.
Thank you for your prayers and support.
Call or send us an email at info@doveworld.org with your thoughts and questions. Stay in touch!
Sincerely,
Dr. Terry Jones – Senior Pastor
Dove World Outreach Center
5805 NW 37th St
Gainesville, FL 32653
(352) 371-2487
Dr. Terry Jones and his church have every constitutional right to carry out their outing at his church, unless of course they are evicted. If their objective is to reach Muslims for Jesus Christ or expose the teachings of Islam, they are totally clueless. Sad how confused some Christians are when it comes to outreach to Muslims! Do we have to be this irresponsible and flagrantly confrontational?
Why in the world would they burn some else’s religious book? Where did they get this idea? The Bible? I doubt it. Saint Luke reports in Acts 19:19:
Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.
These new believers burned their own books. Why is this church asking people to mail copies of the Qur’an to be added “to the fire?” I hope no one complies with this request. Please pray for Dr. Jones and his congregation so that they jettison the idea. Their planned outing will be counterproductive. Its publicity has generated positive public relations for Islam. Pastor Jones and his church should abandon their idea because it would farther alienate Muslims. Instead, they should visit mosques and engage Muslims in meaningful discussions. Muslims are observing the fast during Ramadhan. Most of them spend time at the mosque after prayers especially on weekends.
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哥斯达黎加
Jesus teaches us to be contructed in everything.
So our witness to Muslims must be good.
Our relations with them must be constructive.
This church only presents a bad witness.
The only thing achieved is to put more obstacles to their relationship with Muslims.
Jesus inherited his love of neighbor.
This pastor does not teach only love .. also insert the commands taught to hate ... I pray for him and his church ...
Is not it better to love and build "bridges"
acequen us to introduce you to Christ?
That is winning ... win
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12.10.2010
美国
@ Jaime_Mayorga:
Dr. Jones called off the burning of the Qur’an. I am pretty sure he learned a very important lesson. He wasn’t acting out of love for his neighbor.
20.10.2010
加拿大
Instead of a "National burn a Koran Day", Christians should have a "National study and understand the Koran Day" so that we can properly defend our faith and reach out to Muslims.
06.10.2010
伊拉克
Christians if really they are! in those countries who has freedom to do what they want like to burn Quran or make fun of Muslims figures and they think that will lead people to know the Way and the Truth in Jesus after they made their eyes blind and full of anger about Christians...
my question how can we change this bad image about Christians who still living in Middle East or other Muslims countries who never done these things to their neighbors??! ...
they do that with freedom while Christian in Muslims countries get punished cause they can get of the Christian in protect country....
I will be praying for this organization so may God open their eyes and give them sensor love and care for their bothers and sisters in other countries..
15.09.2010
南非
You make such a key distinction that the new believers burnt their own books. We show serious un-Christian disrespect to our Muslim neighbour by burning their books. Doesn’t appear very loving of our Neighbour.
08.09.2010
美国
@ Pete_Houston:
I couldn’t agree with you more. This pastor is nuts. Where is wisdom? Where are church leaders in Florida?
09.09.2010
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