Terry Jones has fueled an international debate in such a short amount of time. It is amazing how the Pastor of a church of 50 can be known by so many different people. But to me what is even more amazing is that 50 people actually would want to attend his church.
Pastor Jones had decided to create a platform based on an incomplete view of the Bible. Anyone can take a verse of the Bible and skew it to back their agenda, but to be the type of Christian that God wants us to be, we must take a wholistic view of the Bible before we make any decisions.
If this Pastor was actually operating in the Spirit then he would have been led to the conclusion that Jesus called us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to turn the other cheek. The hatred and contempt that is portrayed in even threatening to burn someone else's Holy book is not something that glorifies God.
Furthermore, in a time of such religious conflict, he should know that to burn a Koran would not only be a slap in the face of people we should be loving, but it will also lead to people burning our Bibles.
If we burn Korans, others will burn Bibles. If we protest the building of a Mosque, others will protest the building of a Christian church. If we protest atheist groups at schools, others will protest Christian groups. We are a nation that was fouded on freedom of religion. We have been given amazing privileges in this country that Christians in other countries would love to have. Pastor Jones and others like him should not be risking our religious freedom with such parlor acts.
Bottom line is this: We are to love others as we love ourselves. That means Muslims... but that also means Pastor Terry Jones. Let's lift this man up in prayer, that God would change his heart.
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