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Frank Wells of Alabama, a retired pastor and former missionary to Indonesia, sent this to Jerry Vines at his church's email.
----- Original Message ----- From: FWells103@aol.com To: info@fbcjax.com Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 1:37 PM Subject: to Dr. Vines Your vitriolic remarks about Muhammed represent the Ku Klux Klan mentality of Christianity, certainly not the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ who taught us to love our enemies. Your intemporate, inflammatory expression of hatred and contempt for the founder of another religion may say much more about you than about Muslims. In fact, in the volatile atmosphere that prevails in the world today, you may have cost some missionaries their lives, not to mention the additional justification you have given to radical Muslims for their hatred, violence and terror. I hope that weighs heavily on you in the days ahead. For your information, I spent ten years under appointment as a missionary to Indonesia, seeking to win Muslims to Jesus Christ. Many of them were good, kind, caring neighbors. I have no question about their need for salvation in Jesus Christ, but if you and your ilk who lead the SBC represent the true product of conservative Christianity I have some serious questions about how much better off they are in a hate-filled perversion of Christianity than they are in a hate-filled perversion of Islam. Your comments demonstrate our failure in the war of ideas. Jesus never implied that we would out argue our enemies but showed us by his example how to love and serve. The word "Allah" is a perfectly good Arabic word for God who is not captive to the language of men, but was perfectly revealed in the Word that became flesh and dwelled among us. May God bless you with an awareness of the love of Jesus Christ, and the capacity to manifest that even to Muslims. Frank S. Wells |
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