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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Unpopular tenet ponders: Is
Jesus the savior of the world?
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The World Council of
Churches recently was host
to 130 representatives from
10 world faiths for major
talks on interreiigious rela
tions. The WCC, which
encompasses 340 mainline
Protestant and Orthodox
denominations, considers
this a “core issue.”
At the session, WCC chief
executive Samuel Kobia, a
Kenya Methodist, proposed
new definitions for words
including “conversion” and
'^missions.”
“If there is anything that
we need to convert, it is the
mentality of people to become
true human persons,” said
Kobia, ‘Our common mission
ary vocation is to transform
the world to be truly human,
to recover our common
humanity”
More directly, Muslim polit
ical scientist Reba Raouf
Ezzat from Egypt said reh-
gions must enter a “post-con-
version” era, forsaking prose-
lytism.
Yet Islam is so intent on
absolute truth that it deems
defections to other faiths
intolerable. Some Muslim
nations make conversion
punishable by death, others
treat it as a less severe crime
and private vigilantes some
times punish converts.
Christianity’s toughest
issue, perhaps, is addressed
in “Is Jesus the Only Savior?’
('Eerdmans) by James R.
Edwards. He answers with
an ^nphatic yes.
Though a clergyman in a
WCC member, the Presbyter
ian Church (U.S.A.), and the
ology chairman at Presbyter
ian Whitworth College in
Spokane, Wash., Edwards
wasn’t the sort invited to the
confei'ence. In his denomina
tion, 1,300 congregations
have joined a movement that
insists “Jesus Christ alone is
Lord of aU and the way of sal
vation.”
This belief is also endorsed
by Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger — now Pope Bene
dict XVI —in “TVuth and Tbl-
erance: Christian Belief and
World Religions” (Ignatius).
The pope asserts that Chris
tianity “fix>m its very origin
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Muslim woman sues over
right to wear her head scarf
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORLANDO, Fla. —A Mus
lim woman sued an apart
ment management company
Wednesday, alleging that she
was denied a job at an Orlan
do complex because she
refused to remove her head
scarf for religious reasons.
Danine Hanmiond joined a
gi'owing list of Muslim women
nationwide allegiiig discrimi
nation over theii’ “hijab” or
head scaif, which some Mus
lim women say they are
required to wear because of
modesty
Hammond says in the state
court lawsuit that when she
showed up for the first day of
work in Apiil 2004 at the
Chapel Trace Apartments,
office manager Olga Sierra
called her into her office and
told hei* that she wouldn’t be
allowed to work “dressed like
that.”
When the office manager
told Hammond to take off her
head scarf, Hammond said
she couldn’t and asked to
speak to a supervisor about
making an accommodation,
the lawsuit said. Hammcaid,
who lives in the apartment
complex, was sent home and
told she would be contacted
by telephone.
The lawsuit said that she
was never contacted by the
apartment complex’s man
agement company, Miami-
based Housing Thust Man-
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Academy has religious intolerence
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School officials said her
transfer was routine.
Air Force investigators
spent several days at the
school earlier this year, look
ing into complaints that evan-
gehcal Chiistians wield so
much influence that anti-
Semitism and other forms of
rehgious harassment have
become pervasive.
There have been complaints
at the academy that a Jewish
cadet was told the Holocaust
was revenge for the death of
Jesus and that another Jew
was called a Christ killer by a
fellow cadet. A banner in the
football team’s loker room
lead: “I am a Christian first
and last... I am a member of
Tfeam Jesus Christ.”
Also, there have been com
plaints that cadets were pres
sured to attend chapel, that
academy staffers put New
Tfestament verses in govern
ment e-mail, and that cadets
used the e-mail system to
encourage others to see the
Mel Gibson movie “The Pas
sion of the Christ.”
Capps and Israel said the
report conflicts with com
ments that school supeiin-
tendent Lt. Gen. John Rosa
made to reporters earlier this
month. At the time, Rosa
said: “I know I have problems
in my cadet wing. I have
issues in my staff, and I have
issues in my faculty —and
that’s my entire organiza
tion.”
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June, 2005 Newsletter - Part III (Last Part)
Years ago, when I was coming up in the religious world at West Deep Creek Baptist
Church, R.E. Lindsay was the pastor. He was invited to preach one Sunday night up
in White Store community at Meltonville Baptist Church. I went to hear him. I'll
never forget a statement Bro. Lindsay made from the pulpit that night that followed
me. He made this statement; "They tell me that with every breath you breathe
you are sinning against God. If that is true, hell is going to be your home!"
Someone may ask me: "Alright, Bro. Little, what about that statement?" Friend, out
of Christ, in every breath you breathe, you are sinning against a holy and righteous
God. And unless you flee to Christ and are covered by His Blood, hell is going to be
your home! What will you do about it? You are going out into eternity and you are
going to meet the Lord. It is far better to meet the Lord here and be broken. If you
don't meet the Lord here. He'll meet you on the other side. You-cannot get around
dealing with the eternal Son of God. It is so sad to see you elderly go on not
knowing the Lord. Some of you have told me: "We were brought up in the church
and we are going to stay in the church." Alright, stay in your church and go to hell
for your trouble. That is exactly what you will do. But every truth will one day
witness against you. Oh, how sad to see you go on without Christ! You've been in
the church all your life, but seemingly the Lord has become silent to you. Great
religionists will tell you: "As long as there is life there is hope." I'll answer you from
the Word of God; in Genesis 4, God cursed Cain. Was there any hope for Cain after
that? I know, Bible teachers will tell you that if Cain had asked for forgiveness, he
would have been saved. What foolishness! Three times in the First Chapter of
Romans, Paul said: "God gave them up" or "God gave them over..." A preacher said
to me: "God never gives anybody up." What a blind fool! That preacher will get the
greatest shock of his life one minute after death.
Your Gospel Editor and Teacher,
TM. Lifflg^^
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Sunday Worship 8:00 & 11:00 AM
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28208
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3545 Be.Hties Fd Rd. Char., NC 28216 -''04-399-271~ • Van.Ministn
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Mayfield Memorial Baptist Church
“A Church Putting Love Into Action "
700 SUGAR CREEK ROAD. WEST
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA 28213
Sunday Church School 9:30a.m.
Worship Service 11:00a.m. and 6:00p.m.
Baptist Training Union 5:00p.m.
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Office (704)596-7935 • Fax (704)596-1204
Residence (704)597-1249
Come Share the Vision and
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Sunday Worship Services
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Reeder Memorial Baptist Church
3725 Beatties Ford Road
Charlotte, North Carolina 28216
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“Pa.sior and People Prevailing Together"
Mis.sion Statement: “Celebrating Christ to reach, teach and equip
people for the service of Christ”
Sunday Worship at 8K)0A.M., 9:30 A.M. and 11:30 AJVI.
Sunday School .Ministn at 9*J0 AAL
Children (4-11 yrs.), Youth (12-17 yrs.) & Nursery:ll:30 AM.
Gniups and Married Couple’s: 9:30 AJVL
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Youth and Children's Ministrv
3201 Tuckaseegee Road, Charlotte. NC 28208-3357
Rev. Dr. Casey R. Office: 704-394-3525 Fax:704-394-8836
Kimbrough. I Website: www.mcbc-nc.org.
The Reverend Dr. Casey R. Kimbrough, I. Senior Pastor
St. Paul Baptist Church
Our Purpose: “To convince the unconvinced
to be convinced and make disciples”
Sunday Worship at 7:30 A.M. and 10:30 A.M.
Sunday Morning Breakfast 8:45 A.M.
Sunday School at 9:25 A.M. - 10:25 A.M.
Radio Broadcast Sunday 11:00 A.M. (1370 A.M. Dial)
Bible Study Wed. 12 Noon - 6:45 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Youth Church 2nd & 3rd Sunday 10:30 A.M.
1401 North Allen Street. Charlotte. NC 28205
Office: 704-334-5309
Gregory K Moss Sr.
Pastor