by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, February 19, 2015 (9 years ago)
"We can pray for Gospel rootedness in the Middle East, and we can pray to light up their world like the Fourth of July."-- Russell Moore
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Prayers for both the defeat of and the salvation of Islamic State terrorists are not contradictory, Southern Baptists' lead ethicist says.
Christians should "pray for the Gospel to go forward, and that there might be a new Saul of Tarsus turned away from murdering to Gospel witness," wrote Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, in a Wednesday (Feb. 18) blog post. "At the same time, we ought to pray, with the martyrs in heaven, for justice against those who do such wickedness." Read More