Posted on 04/25/2013 9:19:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On a bitterly cold and snowing afternoon in Aberdeen, the doors of St John's Episcopal Church are open to hundreds of Muslim worshippers, arriving for daily prayers.
The familiar sounds of Christian hymns have been replaced with Islamic prayer in the chapel this Friday lunchtime and the church priest with the imam from the neighbouring mosque.
Muslims from the Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque next door share this church with Christian worshippers up to five times a day.
Church leaders believe this may be the only place in the country where Christian and Muslim worshippers pray side by side.
The rector at St John's has opened his doors to Muslims because there was not enough space for them to pray in their own mosque and many were forced to worship outside on the street.
The Reverend Isaac Poobalan, who grew up in Southern India surrounded by Islam, said he would not have been true to his faith if he did not help his neighbours.
"It was a very cold day, like today, and when I walked past the mosque I saw dozens of male worshippers praying outside, on the streets, right near the church.
''Their hands and feet were bare and you could see their breath in the freezing cold.
''Jesus taught his disciples to love your neighbour as yourself and this is something I cannot just preach to my congregation, I had to put it into practice."
Reverend Poobalan adds: ''I felt very distressed when I saw my neighbours praying out in the cold and I knew I needed to do something to help.''
''I know I cannot solve the world's problems, but when there is a problem I can solve, I will.''
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Will the nearest Mosque do the same for the Christians?
By praying to a false prophet/warlord who's followers deny the divinity of Jesus Christ, deny His death by crucifixion, and His resurrection?
Good luck with that. With services 5 times a day, they are making more use of the space than you are.
Christian hymns are “familiar?”
Would he invite hookers in from out of the cold to continue to ply their trade in the warmth of the church?
These muslims are not outside because they are poor. They are outside because their mosque is full. If you are going to invite them in from the cold, share the gospel with them.
The muslims don’t think they are ‘sharing’ - they think they are conquering.
This is no longer a church of Christ, it is a haven for demonic worship and cult brainwashing. The Lord no longer resides there, but the antichrist is most welcome.
Very Christian thing for the priest to do. I just wonder what the congregation feels about it. No data on that.
No wonder this church has died. It’s lost any charism of Christianity it once possessed. It’s spiritually dead.
Fools! Tools of Islam! Advancing their own demise.
I dunno - it kinda turns the apostle Paul’s methods on their head.
I hope he's doing okay...
RE: Very Christian thing for the priest to do.
I just wonder, would God tell Israel to allow worshipers of Baal to come to their Temple to pray?
Would Jesus tell his Synagogue to allow Romans to worship Jupiter?
Episcopal huh? I'd guess the Reverend Poobalan got rather excited seeing all those asses sticking up in the air.
does this “church” do gay weddings as well?
Further evidence of the death wish among so many Westerners today.
I guess decades of leftist teaching and leftist propaganda on the airwaves is having its inevitable result—a death wish evidenced by massive immigration of third-worlders and then the turning over of the country to them.
Liberalism is a mental illness.
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