Should Christians attend non-Christian worship services?
Is it appropriate for Christians to attend worship services for a different religion?
I think few Christians would object to the idea of learning about or reading up on another religion, but is there something special about a dedicated worship service that makes it spiritually unwise for Christians to attend? Is there a clearly identifiable line between attending such a service, and participating in the worship?
Well this is an interesting question and one that came to my mind yesterday in the midst of an online furore about a blog post we had done on whether woship music annoys people. Its here http://www.musicademy.com/2009/11/five-confessions-annoyed-by-worship/
The reason I was thinking about non Christian worship services was because of one of the comments which said that the muslim act of kneeling with heads bowed down was the more biblical. See here if you don’t want to wade through loads of comments http://www.musicademy.com/2009/11/five-confessions-annoyed-by-worship/#comment-3040
I have no idea whether its “OK” for Christians to attend services by other religions but I do know that Jesus spent most of his time hanging out with people that his fellow Jews felt were really out of order. And there was huge controversy in the NT church in trying to integrate “God Fearers” from non Jewish cultures/religions into Christianity.
Thanks for raising a good question. I look forward to seeing what others have to say.
In my opinion no because first I believe it would be offensive to our God. Exodus Ten Commandments 20:5
you shall not bowdoun to them (refers to #3 “You shall not have no other gods before me. #4 refering to carved image…)
Also you could open the door in your life to Denomic Spirits.