How Should We Respond When "Christians" Misrepresent Christ in Public?

Last updated on: September 9, 2010 at 11:00 am by Drew Dixon

How Should We Respond When "Christians" Misrepresent Christ in Public? 2010-09-09T11:00:03-06:00 Drew Dixon

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I wrote this little article for my church’s newsletter this week concerning Pastor Terry Jones the Qur’an burning controversy that is getting so much media attention. My concern is not to give this whole debacle more attention than it deserves but to address what Christians should do when “evangelical” crazies misrepresent us.

In the meantime, also check out Denny Burke’s blog which summarizes my thoughts about how Christians can best respond to this Pastor’s proposed plan to burn Qur’ans.

I will simply say two things: First, it is telling that people in Kabul are burning effigies of Pastor Jones and folks in Indonesia are rioting and yet more media attention is being given to this silly pastor’s foolish plans. Secondly, I would simply say that when immature people do immature things for attention, we should not be surprised and we should not give it any attention.

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