Church helps mosque rebuild: Responding to the Equality Act and those with whom we disagree
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
After the recent winter crisis in Texas, a church in the Dallas area is helping a mosque rebuild. Today's podcast tells this story, then we turn to the Equality Act, discuss its danger for those its supports claim to be helping, and close with a call to sacrificial service in the name of Jesus.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Former President Donald Trump spoke at the conservative political action conference |
| 0:24.3 | yesterday, criticizing President Biden on a variety of issues and pledging not to create a new party. |
| 0:31.2 | In other news, Chadwick Bozeman won last night's Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture |
| 0:36.7 | Drama, six months after he died |
| 0:39.1 | of colon cancer at the age of 43, and Emma Corrin paid tribute to Princess Diana after winning |
| 0:45.8 | a Golden Globe for portraying her in Netflix The Crown. While these stories are leading the |
| 0:51.3 | national news this morning, another story received only local |
| 0:55.1 | coverage in my area but deserves our attention. |
| 0:58.6 | When winter storms devastated our state recently, First United Methodist Church of Denton, |
| 1:04.8 | north of Dallas-Fort Worth, started a GoFundMe campaign to help the Islamic Society of Denton pay for repairs to its building. |
| 1:13.3 | This is just one expression of what a minister at the church calls a long-standing friendship with the mosque. |
| 1:20.6 | Did the church's action endorse a religion that expressly rejects the Trinity and deity of Jesus? |
| 1:30.0 | Did it send a signal of doctrinal compromise and unbiblical tolerance, or did it build a relational bridge across which the gospel can travel, |
| 1:36.8 | bringing the good news of Jesus' love to Muslims in our region? I do not know the Denton Church, |
| 1:43.5 | but I am confident that the third option is true. |
| 1:46.8 | If so, these believers are following in the steps of Jesus with the Samaritan woman at the well, |
| 1:52.9 | Paul with the Greek philosophers, and a host of other biblical and historical examples. |
| 1:58.5 | The lesson is both simple and profound. To win the people to Jesus, |
| 2:03.1 | we must love and serve them where they are, not where we wish them to be. This principle is on my |
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