Christians to seek converts at mosques' doorsteps

The Seattle Times ^ | 03 August, 2007 | Lornet Turnbull and Janet I. Tu

[Salem]

Led by a California pastor, a group of Christians will gather outside some Seattle-area mosques today in hopes of winning converts among Muslim worshippers coming to midday prayer.

They will also take their message of salvation to those attending this weekend's Arab Festival at Seattle Center and to the parking lots of shopping centers popular among people from Islamic or Arab cultures.

It's a bold — and some say audacious — gesture, coming at a time when choices over religion have grown increasingly sensitive.

But the way Pastor George Saieg sees it, many Muslims come from countries in which people lack the freedom to choose their own religion. An Arab who grew up in a Christian home in Sudan and attended Muslim schools, Saieg said Islam is a religion that offers its followers no assurance of salvation.

"In some countries, the penalty of leaving Islam is death," he said. "I want people to know that they have freedom in this country to hear about Jesus Christ."

Continued....

[Salem]

2Co 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Contending in the Arena of Ideas, right on their doorstep. Now if the purported 33-35 million other Evangelicals in America did this same thing—still our mandate, we would see the spread of Islam and its long term destructive influence on our liberties in America severely curtailed.

Still, may these intrepid few have a great impact.

[Salem]

Retrieved this from the CAIR email list. Must have made them nervous.

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AMERICA AT WAR
At Salem the Soldier's Homepage ~
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links...  by backhoe
Translated Pre-War IRAQ Documents  by jveritas
Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....  by PsyOp
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The Clash of Ideologies - A Review

"...It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]

"...That the totalitarian force pitted against freedom wears a religious makes this civil war among mankind all the more difficult to engage. Loving freedom as we do, it seems reprehensible to deliberate against a religion. But this is no ordinary religion as it demands absolute obedience of all to their religion at the cost of freedom itself." [FReeper Backtothestreets]

[b4its2late]

Sounds like an Ann Coulter move......

[BenLurkin]

Gutsy. Especiallly in these times — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876127/posts

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Great Commission, but who’s doing much of it nowadays?

[fieldmarshaldj]

I hope they wear steel-lined turtlenecks.

[eleni121]

Pastor George Saieg and his congregation: God Bless and PROTECT Them!

I wish I could be there too.

[sionnsar]

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[doc1019]

Won’t be long before a law is passed outlawing this practice. (e.g. abortion mills).

[Killborn]

Great, while we are at it, let’s send missionaries to synagogues and Buddhist temples! Bonus conversion points if you converted people right before they begin their religious ceremonies!

This idea is beyond stuid. How would anyone else like it if the Hare Krishnas, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or others drop by their places of worship looking for converts?

It’s got to be annoying, to say the least...

[joebuck]

"The Great Commission, but who’s doing much of it nowadays?"

I can think of some Korean Saints who are making the ultimate sacrifice right now to spread the word. May Jesus lift them up and award them one thousand crowns each in Heaven.

[vetvetdoug]

I can see the contrast.....
Jesus is Love(Christians)

Mohammer will cut your friggin' head off you blasfemurs...(Islamofratergists)

[SmoothTalker]

Death wish.

[donna]

Can you imagine the relief it would be for a Moslem to take on Jesus? Wow.

Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

[crazyhorse691]

I like it. I couldn’t do it myself, not because of my lack of faith, but, because I have always had trouble turning the other cheek, particularly if I see something coming my way.

[princess leah]

I believe that contrary to being “stupid” as one previous poster put it I would have to repeat Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the Power of God for salvation to every one who believes, to the Jew first and also to the greek.”

[doc1019]

LOL! And I’m sure that you wear your billed cap with the bill facing backward.

[airborne]

May God Almighty protect them all, and guide them, and may He come into the hearts of those who have yet to be touched by the Holy Spirit!

In Jesus’s name we pray!

amen!

[caseinpoint]

I’m with you. This is a dumb idea. How would Catholics like Protestants parked on the steps to their cathedrals, or Presbyterians like to see Catholic missionaries in their church entry? There is a time and a place to take the message to people but it is not on their way to their church. I think it will harden more people than help and it seems the only thing it will accomplish is bad publicity.

[Ramius]

This idea is beyond stu[p]id. How would anyone else like it if...

Nonsense. This is the too-long ignored spiritual component of this war. More power to 'em. And if the muslims want to show up at churches to proselytize... So much the better. Saves us the trip.