Common Ground
The following is about a response to a document by Muslim leaders titled “A Common Word Between Us and You” which says that 138 Muslim scolars, clerics and intellectuals have come together for the first time to declare common ground between Christianity and Islam. Apparently this has ‘deeply encouraged and challenged’ the Christian community and they have decided to respond.
The response can be found on the website of Yale Center for Faith and Culture:
Loving God and Neighbor together:
A Christian Response to ‘A Common Word Between Us and You’
In the name of the Infinitely Good God
whom we should love with all our Being
(http://www.yale.edu/faith/abou-commonword.htm)“What is common between us lies not in something marginal nor in something merely important to each. It lies, rather, in something absolutely central to both: love of God and love of neighbor.”
Signatories to make Menno roll over include:
Robert & Betty Lou Buckwalter, Prince of Peace Mennonite Church, Anchorage, Alaska
Thomas P. Finger, Mennonite Central Committee, Evanston, IL
Millard Garrett, Vice President, Eastern Mennonite Missions, Salunga, PA
Marian E. Hostetler, former worker, Mennonite Mission Network and Eastern Mennonite Mission, Elkhart, IN
James R. Krabill, Senior Executive for Global Ministries, Mennonite Mission Network, Elkhart, IN
Catherine Kurtz, Landisville Mennonite Church, Landisville, PA
John A. Lapp, Executive Secretary Emeritus, Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, PA
Albert C. Lobe, Interim Executive Director, Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, PA
Harold E. Metzler, Member, Church of the Brethren and heritor of the Amish/Mennonite tradition
David B. Miller, Pastor, University Mennonite Church, State College, PA
Dr. Donald H. and Mary M. Reimer, Charlesewood Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba
David W. and K. Grace Shenk, Global Consultants, Eastern Mennonite Missions, Salunga, PA
Mark R. Wenger, Director of Pastoral Studies, Lancaster Eastern Mennonite Seminary P.O., Lancaster, PA
Byard & Judy Yoder, Landisville Mennonite Church, Pennsylvania
You can find many others who have offered their names at the bottom of this PUBLIC signatory list of A Christian Response for all to see. By including their names, these leaders are all agreeing and proclaiming ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB that they believe Christians and Muslims worship a common God. Among those names you will also see Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Jim Wallis, Leith Anderson, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels and Robert Schuller.
Also read:
Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Brian McLaren and other Contemplative/Emerging Leaders Invite Muslims to Love God, Neighbors Together
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=891&more=1&c=1
ROM Index: uncommonly high
***Recommended reading for these Mennonites:
Christian leaders criticized for seeking ‘common ground’ with Muslim imams
(@onenewsnow.com)
Read this VERY important article from the Barnabus Fund explaining how these evangelicals may have been given a hidden message from the Muslims. This is from the article:
“Most Westerners, reading the verse as quoted in the letter, simply do not realise what it means. But for Muslims reading the letter, the meaning is clear: a call to Christians and Jews to avoid God`s anger and judgement by accepting Islam.”
A sobering thought, indeed.
