KORAN FLUSH - Hard to tell who is right in this one!

Pastor relents and removes offensive sign. Fellow Southern Baptist pastor Creighton Lovelace, pastor of Danieltown Baptist Church in Rutherford, N.C., says he is sorry for offending Muslims with a church sign that read "The Koran needs to be flushed."

Intense pressure became too much for the church and its spiritual leader. Even SBC leaders got into the fray. In a telling statement, Lovelace said ...

I did not realize how people of the Muslim faith view the Koran -- that devoted Muslims view it more highly than many in the U.S. view the Bible.

This is too true to ignore. Muslims do revere their holy book more than Christians do theirs. Jehovah Witnesses read their bibles more than Christians do. Mormons witness more than Christ's disciples do. Catholics worship more seriously than Protestants do. Third-world believers live out their faith more than American Christians do. Seventh-day Adventists know more about the end times than non-Adventists do.

As a minister of the Good News I must proclaim that truth "in season and out," whether others like it or not. On the other hand "not all things are profitable" and we shouldn't use our "freedom as a covering for evil."

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2:12

It is hard to tell who is right here. If the Good News is truly THE good news because it came from "The Truth" then whatever news the Koran is bringing is false news and not good at all. I agree with Lovelace's sentiments but would suggest that the flushing of the Koran should be done by God, not man!