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."
No problem! Just haven’t been called that for quite a while.
(Been called a lot of other things, of course.)
Allah is a false god. He is not the God of the Bible. If he is anything, he is a demon or even Satan himself.
The lady was right in what she did, boldly proclaiming Jesus Christ as the only Way to salvation. The time for “politeness” in the face of evil not only is long gone, but never really was.
You mean other than He tells us in His word which prayers He hears? You may want to investigate what He has to say about that in His word. And you may want to check out the attitude of the owner of this site towards those who oppose the one true God also.
So do you think our Arabic-speaking brothers should abandon the word for “God” in Arabic to Muslims, when they had used it for some centuries before Islam existed?
BTW, in Arabic Bibles, the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic words for God are all translated as Allah.
As for whether her methods were appropriate or not, I can’t help thinking of all those incidents in the New Testament where Jesus Christ and his apostles boldly disrupted pagan religious services to proclaim Jesus Christ as savior.
Ohh, wait...
It’s not a stupid lib tactic, it’s a valid question. It’s not the least distracting within this thread. If you cannot answer, just say so. You’re the one that said they knew what prayers God hears, I’m just asking for some more detail.
Thanks, I was wondering how long I would have to wait before someone intimated he might be forced to tattle to Daddy.
I am opposing what seems to me to be loose logic and bad theology. If that constitutes opposing the one true God, so be it.
Seems to me more like opposing you, but then possibly you believe X = Y.
Every single FReeper needs to read that book.
Yeah, OK.
Like the man says. http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001358155/u_has_a_smell_xlarge.jpeg
Allah = SATAN.
Better to use the name “Yawah” to call God God.
AMEN.
Surely you don’t think that because in Arabic Bibles God is translated “allah” that it means the God of Christianity is the same as the Muslim god. If you do, then there’s really nothing I can say to you.
Yahweh, or Jehovah, or YHWH do not translate into English as God.
They are variants of His personal name. God, of course,is a title or common noun, not a name.
In Hebrew the words for God are Elohim and El. Which are of course cognate with the Aramaic Alahah and Arabic Allah. Given the difficulties with transliterating from a Semitic to Roman alphabet, these are all pretty much the same word.
Try reading post 80. What we’re talking about here is the difference between the reality and the word that refers to the reality. The map vs. the territory if you will.
The Allah of the Koran and the God of the Bible are certainly not the same person.
However, the Allah worshipped by Arabic-speaking Christians and the God worshipped by English-speaking Christians is the same.
Why should Christians agree that only Muslims can use a word that Christians used for centuries before Islam existed?
Christians worship one God, no matter what their nationality is—Arab, Chinese, Indian, whatever. There is one God and one way to Him: Jesus. That’s all.
Nitpicking scripture? Seriously? You’re going to argue about Gods word because you don’t like parts?
Jesus died for everyones sins. We are not to judge whether someone is worthy but are tasked with communicating the message and get out of Gods way.
Someone who ‘nitpicks’ scripture should worry about themselves before preaching to others.
Is Manson worthy? Is the guy in Cleveland who kidnapped those girls for ten years worthy? Is the woman who beat her baby with a belt worthy? I can go on and on. Yes, you are right, we can not discern what these people do in the last moments of their lives. But I am pretty sure those guys that rammed the jets into the WTC and Pentagon were not asking Christ for forgivemess when they died. Many times Jesus states that there will be a lot a people going into the darkness where there will be wailing and ghashing of teeth. Even those who say they believed in him.
“I did not say I did not like parts of the Bible. I am stating that you are nitpicking from scripture to give the impression that all will be saved. “
Blasphemy.
The scripture is the scripture. It says that Jesus died for everyones sins which includes people such as those. God decides who gets saved, not you or I.
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