A short update on the interfaith service held at All Saints Anglican Church in Erin.
Here is a photo of the service which attracted 30 Muslims and two imams. As far as I can tell, they outnumber the regular parishioners. Finally an answer to the disastrous numerical decline in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Here is the Chrislam version of the Lord’s Prayer which was used:
Priest: And lead us not into temptation
Imam: Show us the straight path. The path of those whom Thou has favoured
Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger. Nor of those who go astray.Priest: For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
There was one potentially embarrassing moment when someone brought up the awkward topic of “jihad”. The impertinent question was deftly diverted away from the imputation that it might involve lopping off the heads of infidels:
When All Saints parishioner Lynne Dole asked about the word “jihad”, the Imam said that for many in the West this word means war or aggression against “infidels” (those not of the Muslim faith). He explained that the word itself means effort, striving, struggling to become a good Muslim and informing others about their faith.
There can be no joint worship of GOD with Muslims as they clearly reject our Lord and Saviour and do not accept our Scriptures. In fact, the Quran clearly teaches that if you are not a believer (in Islam} you should either be dead or pay a constant tribute to remain alive. When I questioned a Muslim cleric that lived in our complex several years back after one of the terrorist incidents in Paris I was given the rather short and telling answer – well they desecrated the prophet.
Well i find muslims soft and receptive to spiritual things have seen 3 convert to christianity. So with that many muslims in a christian place might get some converts. We had a whole bunch at our church were really enjoying it