Posted on 11/18/2014 7:54:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Christine Weick, the Christian woman who snuck into the invitation-only Islamic prayer service last Friday afternoon at the Washington National Cathedral, said that although she interrupted the service to proclaim the name of Jesus and tell worshippers inside to stay away from U.S. churches, she loves Muslims.
"God has a love for them. He does, 'God so loved the world.' That includes Muslims. I have a love for them. They are a beautiful people. Most of them are very kind," Weick, 50, told The Christian Post Sunday.
The service held inside the Episcopal church was meant to promote interfaith prayer and improve global relations between Muslims and Christians, according to church and Muslim group organizers.
However, Weick, who is not a stranger to controversy, having also protested at LGBT events, said that when it comes to freedom of religion in America, there is an uneven battlefield. Weick, who wrote the book, Explain This! A Verse by Verse Explanation of the Book of Revelation, is living primarily out of her car while touring book fairs and other various events.
"For those that say this is a country of freedom of religion, then I say let's play fair," she said. "Let us have a Bible study in their mosque. Let me pass out the Bible tracts at their mosque instead of having the police called out on me. Why can't Franklin Graham go into the biggest mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, and hold a prayer vigil on Easter Sunday there? They will not allow it because they are not tolerant of us. They wanted nothing to do with Christianity."
During announcements at the beginning of the prayer service, Weick stood up and shouted, "Jesus Christ died on that cross over there. He is the reason why we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior."
She continued, "We have built, and allowed you here in mosques across this country. Why can't you worship in your mosque, and leave our churches alone?"
Weick was then escorted out of the cathedral, and despite a major concern on her part that she would be arrested, she was not. As of Sunday, she said no charges had been filed.
She told CP that as part of her "ministry" she first held signs opposed to gay marriage several years ago.
She said the issues of the legalization of gay marriage and Muslims propagating in the U.S. are similar in that both have "taking over" the country as an end game — one as a moral entity and the other as a religion. She believes one agenda is attacking at "the core of family" and the other is against "the core of American fundamental principles."
"My girlfriend last year sent me an article about the Muslims having put up a huge billboard in Ohio that said 'Jesus is a Muslim,' Weick explained. "My blood boiled again, and then I had a new issue. So I made a sign that said, 'I serve a risen Savior, Jesus Christ. Mohammed is dead' in response to their billboard and went and put it at a mosque in Cleveland."
She said that as a result of holding the sign outside the mosque she was invited to a potluck inside. Weick said that although she was reluctant to do so, she stepped inside the mosque for the potluck because she felt God was telling her to do so. Once inside, she said she shared the Gospel to four Muslim women. Since the experience, she has stood at mosques with her sign on Fridays.
"It started a love for the Muslims," she told CP.
However, Weick questions what some leaders in America believe about the Muslim faith. "If they are such a religion of peace, if they love America and if they profess to be a peaceful and tolerant religion, then allow us to have a Christmas service at a mosque. Let's pray. I guarantee you that will not happen because they do not tolerate it," she said.
When asked about what she would tell others about her experience on Friday, she said: "The main thing that I would tell believers is that it's a battle out there. We need to warrior-up, take on the whole armor of God, we got the helmet of salvation, we got the sword, we need to start fighting and quit compromising. When does the complacency stop? When? When they are completely taking over? When sin has completely eradicated the Bible in every aspect? When we can't even preach from the Bible anymore? That's my concern for the American church because eventually we are not going to be able to get the word out there because it's not going to be allowed and we are headed out that way.
"When are we going to stand up and fight? I don't think God meant for His people to just lay back and do nothing."
>Even when I disagree strongly with the religion, as I do with Islam, I respect their belief.<
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In that same vein, you must also respect Nazism, Communism, atheism and Satanism because its adherents also believe that they walk on the path of truth.
It’s “nice”? It’s the Word of God. You’re new on Free Republic, so maybe you don’t realize that many here believe God’s Word. And, I don’t give a rip that “many others” don’t believe the Bible. It’s too bad for them.
I did not say I respect what they believe in, I said I respect the people with that belief system, always hoping I can help show them where they are wrong.
Seems to me this is a variant of love the sinner while hating the sin.
One of my best friends, BTW, is a white-bread CA boy who converted to Islam back in the early 70s because Episcopalianism was so warlike. In his defence, he belongs to a Sufi sect that really is nonviolent and which ISIS kills whenever they get the chance.
I believe he is wrong, but I respect him and therefore his belief.
YMMV
I am not new, just this name, and I realize there are many non-Christians here also.
Jesus died for everyone's sins. True. But he also said that people will be shouting out his name as the doors close and he will say go away, I do not know you.
So yes, Jesus died for our sins and God does love the world. But you have to love back. You have to recognize Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. It is not a one way street.
I think most Christians will agree that God doesn't hear or respond to all prayers.
But it's really dangerous to set yourself up as the authority competent to decide which He hears and which He doesn't.
Sad that many others do not. True, but sad.
We are approaching a time of harvest, so to speak.
"Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers."
I’m doing no such thing—setting myself up as “the authority.” You appear to be an antagonist here. Your “newbie” status only reinforces this appearance.
The question was not necessarily theological nor the answer ...
Of COURSE there are variances of result depending on what you do with Jesus
I don’t think we’re approaching a time of harvest, this is just the way of the world, 2014
A proud noobie since 2006, that’s me! (Actually I posted under a different handle for some years before that.)
I agree God doesn’t hear all prayers, I just think it presumptuous of me or you to say that we know which prayers He does hear.
Among other things, Jesus was very clear that in the Last Days a good many of those who were firmly convinced they were on His good side would be rejected, while those viewed by themselves and others as “not good enough” would be welcomed into His kingdom.
If you were not trying to say that in your opinion God did not hear Muslim prayers, then I apologize for my misunderstanding. But if you were, it sure looks to me like you were setting yourself up as the authority who knows which prayers He hears.
As well as "see" while we wait.
Pray for good vision.
Just out of curiosity, whose prayers do you know that God listened to during the reformation?
Sorry, Sherman. My "newbie" comment to you was a mistake, not meant for you, but for the other guy who just signed up in August.
Sorry, new guy, but I'm not in the mood for red herring distractions that have nothing to do with your original comment and the subject of this entire thread.
No, I wasn't "setting myself up" as anything. The original comment by the other guy that the lady was "rude" was what started it. Then, the other guy said that, basically, we all pray to the same God, who has "many different names." That's what I was rejecting. Allah is NOT God, and those people who run the National Cathedral were purely stupid for inviting Islamists into that church like the dhimmis they are showing themselves to be.
Just give it a shot, if you can
NO! You're trying a classic liberal tactic of distraction, and it doesn't work on me. Your point was that God has many names, and we all pray to Him. I firmly disagree, and that's that.
Allah is indeed the Arabic word for God. It is used as such by Arabic-speaking Christians and was long before Mohammed came around.
You can say, if you like, and I'd even agree, that the "Allah" worshipped by Muslims is not the same Person as is worshipped by Christians under the same name.
Historically speaking, Jesus probably addressed His Father with an Aramaic word pronounced very similarly to that of the present day Arabic "Allah."
To say "Allah is not God," is to say, linguistically speaking, "God is not God."
Seems to me there is no question whatsoever that the lady was rude. You can make an argument her rudeness was justified, but not that it wasn't discourteous.
There are, of course, much worse sins than being rude.
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