A blueprint for churches to tackle Islamist crime
by Julian Mann, TCW:
What can the Christian churches of Britain realistically do to help combat the growing threat from criminals who perpetrate their evils in the name of Islam?
Individual Christians in the police and security services are no doubt doing plenty of positive things to combat this relatively new form of criminality in Britain. Individual Christian citizens can and should pass on relevant information that may come their way to the police. But if Christian churches corporately start acting as an extra surveillance arm of the secular State, then that would distract them from their core work of proclaiming by word and deed God’s message of eternal salvation through faith in His one and only Son Jesus Christ.
Having said that, springing out of the core spiritual task here are three suggestions as to things the mainline churches of Britain could be doing to influence for the better a society increasingly vulnerable to Islamist criminality:
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