LTRJ Note: As we were preparing to post this letter to the editor that came to us recently, we came across Christian radio host Janet Mefferd’s Twitter comments about Southern Baptist Convention president J.D. Greear’s involvement with a “Neighborly Faith” event on March 5th titled “Hope in the Current Age: A Conversation on Christianity and Islam.” Mefferd stated, “Before Greear’s interfaith dialogue, 64% of Christian attendees felt “positive” about Islam. After, 76% of Christians “said their attitude toward Islam was more positive than before!” Way to go, SBC. Is this what it means to be “missional?” Mefferd asks the question, “Southern Baptist pastors and laymen: Is it OK w/you that all these SBC leaders are pushing Christian-Muslim ‘interfaith dialogue?’ Is this why you are part of the SBC?”
Dear Lighthouse Trails:
Could you please check this out? I am stunned by what I have heard and read about this new group of people called: Neighborly Faith.
Neighborly Faith urges evangelicals to find a :”third way” to befriend Muslims:
There are many evangelical Christians getting involved with this, and it is scary when you realize how far this movement has come in a very short period of time.
I just haven’t seen Lighthouse Trails say anything on this movement, and it is really moving quickly into so-called Christian colleges and other places as well.
I see absolutely nothing good coming from this movement, and believe me it is not going to go away either. It’s the speed of the movement and what this group is saying we as Christians should be doing that put a cold chill down my back.
Thank you for reading my e-mail, and I hope you will check this out.
My concern is that the Lord says we are not to go after other gods, and the Islamics/Muslims do not have the same God as we do. Many Christians, from what I’ve read, are being told and are believing that we do indeed share the same God. I know we do not, and I know you know that too.
M.J.
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Very well said, Kathryn! We hope JD Greear repents and soon. He is playing in satan’ sandbox.
Read carefully- also , God the Father has been changed to Allah in some cases. That…is calling God Satan. Google will be your best friend for finding examples but the article I quickly searched and linked shows one of the atrocious alternate translations. https://www.christianpost.com/news/father-and-son-removed-from-bible-translations-for-muslims.html
Please post both the specific Bible passages and the names of the “new versions” that you state “were changed to accommodate Islam’s view on Jesus not being the sin of God”. Thank you.
These are some awesome comments.
I’m am 100% convinced that the main Calvinist leaders know exactly what they are doing and will lead their flock to the one world religion and into hell.
I always tell Muslims: The Bible contains multiple eye witness accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All of the apostles, save Judas, went to the ends of the earth to be violently persecuted and often murder for the God they saw arise from the dead. If he didn’t rise from the dead, with the marks of the cross on his body, they would have all bailed and gone back to fishing, but to a man, they travelled from Ethiopia to Armenia to India.
The testimony of the Muslim Jesus, aka Isa? 600 years after the death of Jesus a spirit appears to Mohammed in a cave and tells him Judas was in the cross and Jesus was just a prophet.
I’m going with multiple, contemporaneous eye witness accounts – plus I know I needed God to pay the full debt of my sin. My deeds and religious acts for God could never ever be enough.
PS- new Bible versions were changed to accommodate Islam’s view on Jesus not being the sin of God. Outrageous.
JDGreear, president of the SBC, did a huge disservice to the Church by dialoguing with Omar Suleiman. He brought confusion to those Christians who don’t use God given discernment by testing the spirits. Pastor Greear was essentially apologizing for our insensitivity to the ‘plight’ of Muslims in America, because they are a minority. White privilege was mentioned. Article 9 of last summer’s SBC was horrible, and yet it was passed by the messengers at the conference, ( that was Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory). I am writing as a Baptist believer. Christians everywhere need to repent of our sins and speak up when false teachings infiltrate the pulpit. Calvinism is being taught and embraced in at least three of the Baptist seminaries. I believe this Neighborly Faith movement is an outgrowth of wayward doctrine. Can you imagine Elijah being touchy-feely with the false prophets of Baal?
That was my point. Jesus is Savior, God, crucified, resurrected. What is Isa? Nothing. According to “their” fake theology, Isa was some prophet and not God. Light has nothing to do with darkness.
Why does that not surprise me in the least? 🙄🤦🏼♀️
I believe some missionary organizations are omitting Son of God from the Arabic translations. Muslims say God has no sons. This missionary to the Muslims also goes to the mosque and worships with them. I think this is wrong. He is a missionary sent out by an EVF church. I was wearing a Jewish star once at a reception for this missionary couple and the couple was horrified. One evening at a service this missionary wife said that she tells Muslims that Jesus was their cousin, that Jesus was an Arab just like them. This happened many yrs. ago.
Just for the record, we watched an interview a number of years between John Piper and Rick Warren, and Warren told Piper he was a Calvinist.
The name of *their* Jesus is Isa — and in their faith, he was just a prophet, not as great a prophet as Muhammad.
IOW, their Jesus is *another* Jesus, not the true Son of God. This is the very thing the deceived people mentioned above need to know! Lord, have mercy.
I don’t believe that Rick Warren is a Calvinist, yet his PEACE plan, among other things, is the major engine for building bridges to non biblical faiths inside and outside of Christianity.
In the past there was a befriend homosexuals movement. That ended up convincing way to many Christians that homosexuality should be embraced not shunned. Look at the fruit of that tree years later.
Far to many folks rely on and trust in emotions rather than solid biblical doctrinal truths. Barna surveys of Christians reveal that huge numbers don’t even qualify as milk drinking babies. Whatever pastors are serving up from the pulpits, it is devoid of meat.
Many yrs. ago I read that Allah was the moon god of the pagans. Mohammad’s family was in charge of caring for this god, that is why he decided that Allah should be the one god to worship. Allah is not our god; we do not worship the same god.
I asked an imam if he really believed that we worship the same God. He said “yes!”
I said “I am worshiping Jesus Christ, is that the God you are worshiping?”
He answered “we are not worshiping the same God”.
Believe it or not, in 2003, a Protestant, Calvinist pastor told me to my face that Christians and Muslims have the very same “god.”
“Oh,” I said, “and what’s the name of their Jesus?”
I did not understand, he said to me. He had done a doctorate on the topic, after all.
“Oh,” I said, “and what’s the name of their Jesus?”
Birds of a feather deceive together.
I have been encouraged with the last few articles discussing and warning about the fall of the SBC and its associated entities.
Thank you for starting to talk about the SBC, Calvinism (and neo-Calvinism,) The Gospel Coalition, Islamic Interfaith Dialogue, etc…!!!
It is interesting to me as I have watched this over the last several years, it seems apparent that it is Calvinism that seems the be the thread that plays a role in “sewing” these ideas and people together.
Also, the promotion and merging together of all these ideologies through the MANY campaigns and conferences is a natural extension of Lighthouse Trails original warnings re: the many authors promoting Contemplative Prayer (and all its forms) making inroads into the church.
These subversive efforts to bring in the “Third Way” is beginning to separate the remnant church versus the culturally relevant world church. Be prepared, Brethren, to stand alone with THE Word of Truth.
Allah is certainly NOT the Creator God of the Universe, the one who told Moses that His(God’s) only name is “ I AM” . ALLAH, who through his Prophet Mohammed , DEMANDS Conversion OR Death, or a lesser penalty of becoming a Slave to Islam and paying a Tax, – IS NOT the God of Love and Redemption- John 3: 16-17; also refer to John 8:42 -47). The TRUE God – God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, IS the ONLY ONE who “came into this World” to Provide REDEMPTION and Eternal LIFE for Mankind , NOT SLAVERY and DEATH.