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My Mosque
Ok, so not really "my" mosque but one that is being built a mile down the road from where I live and one I will pass every day on my way to work.
In my town right outside Nashville they are building a huge 50,000 sq ft "Islamic Center" that includes classrooms, recreational facilities, and a Mosque.
I am sure their aim is to evangelize MTSU, the second largest University in the state of Tennessee that is just 5 minutes from this center.
While I am very disturbed about this project if there are no ties to radical Islam with the funding, board, and Imam of this center then there is no legal reason to keep it from being built.
This is a test of just how "christian" the christian community will react in our town and so far it is a mixed bag. Thankfully my pastor is showing christian love and character while still being vigilant about any danger to our community.
Yesterday evening as I was driving to a mens cookout at church I noticed a TV news van at the site. Later when I got home I checked the news on the web and found out somebody had vandalized three pieces of heavy equipment at the job site by setting them on fire. I am sure it is some redneck idiot "christians" thinking they are doing the will of God but falling into a trap to discredit christians who actually practice christianity
This Mosque is causing more division in the local christian community as they figure out how to respond to it than anything in the past. Like my pastor I am praying for wisdom in how we respond.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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