What does Jesus think about Inter-Faith events?
I saw this on the web and wondered if other Christians felt as good as I do about denominations coming together to bless communities. Read this and then please share your opinion in an answer.
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More than 100 people of different Christian denominations gathered under the gazebo at Pioneer Park [St George UT] on Jan. 1 for the fourth annual Prayer over the City.
Local religious leaders prayed for public safety officials, U.S. military personnel, government, children, and families for 2009.
Jimi Kestin, pastor for Solomon’s Porch Foursquare Fellowship, spread a message of love without conditions.
“We are putting aside the religious beliefs that separate us to set the tone for 2009,” Kestin said.
Kestin organizes the prayer every year, he said, to give people an opportunity to thank God for the positive events in the previous year and ask for His blessing for the new year.
“We do this to start the year acknowledging our prosperity, health and protection is in God’s hands,” Kestin said
Before other religious leaders led prayers over the city, Mayor Dan McArthur lead the group in singing “Are you from Dixie.” He then recited a poem about building bridges.
“I agree we’re all here to build bridges for the better,” he said.
The Rev. Eleazar Silva of the St. George Catholic Church gave a traditional blessing for the new year.
“We ask God to be with us in this new year and for the Lord to give us his grace to do good,” Silva said.
Tom Lamb, chairman of the Southern Utah Public Affairs Council for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lead the group in prayer for spiritual and economic prosperity.
Lamb prayed for all people to have the resources necessary to survive, and expressed gratitude for the pioneers who settled the sunny region he now calls home.
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Is this good and commendable idea, or should the in-fighting continue?
He would be a UU.
jesus died a while ago.
he cant ‘think’ anything anymore.
and who are you to say what he feels?
I think Jesus would be laughing his butt off! LOL
One, they all claim to be following him and they can’t agree on much of anything.
Two, they’re calling it “interfaith” when they’re all Christians!
There are so many that claim to follow Jesus.
Few do.
The Bible holds a written history of God’s people mixing with the world.
Time and time again
God hates it.
There is only one God, one faith, one lord.
There are many interpretations of “Inter-Faith”
One is that all the groups believe in the basic fundamentals: in other words, they have it “right” about Jesus.
Another is that people come from many faiths, not all of whom believe that Jesus is the Saviour and the son of God.
I think we do need more unity among believers: our community just started having a series of prayer meetings. There are three churches (Baptist, Pentecostal, Brethren) and each church takes turns hosting.
People are praying for our community, not for their particular church.
Only in unity can we have the power to reach the world.
First, to me this seems like imposing God on the beliefs of man which is WRONG because God is the ultimate authority on it all. It is taking American concepts form 2009 and imposing them on GOD! So to me the “preachers” are…. how would you say it? Astonishingly ignorant?
No, the cold hard brutal fact is that if you are a Christian or a Muslim (any version of either) and you fully believe in your religion than you need to kill the person who isn’t so enlightened.
I’m not making this stuff up. I’m just going by what religious texts say.
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Anyway, Quill, I just wanted to thank you for the detailed answer you gave to one of my questions. Please enable your email so people can contact you.