My wife and I recently visited the Lutheran church (Missouri Synod, no less!!) in Tulsa where we were married a few years ago and their "ecumenism" had "evolved" to the point that they were planning to have some muslim chick come in to do a whitewash presentation on sharia law. They also had about a third the attendance we had seen before.
There's a history with this particular church going back to the 60's, when the current "Pastor Emiritus" got involved with liberal politics and guy entering seminary school to dodge the draft.
I'd betcha every one of these churches that are rationalizing this are in the red. This is their death rattle; in ten years many (most?) of these churches will be mosques. I hope I'm wrong.
"No moola, no boola."
The Missouri synod church has fallen away from the doctrines that it has advocated. The churches that join with the Muslim will just vanish. I have seen it a pastor in churches and church denominations.
I serve in small conservative lutheran church as the pastor church has 45 members. but I also work as a mental health counselor. i am planning for the church to be non-existent in 5 years, because the membership is people over the age of 60. I am the youngest memeber and I am the pastor, every year the church loses 5 -7 members due to deaths or the children take the parents to live with them out of state.
the church denomination that I am part of refuses to have a muslim discourse. the church that I am part of will vanish not because of doctrinal issues - no members.
Yes, my father-in-law was the sexton for a Greek Orthodox church (years ago), they rented their church out to Muslim weddings and there was all this yelling and tongue roll yells. I always wondered what God would think of having that in his peaceful church.