The black and white ISIS flag has come to symbolise terror and inhumanity across the Middle East but churches in Australia are putting their own spin on it to use it for good.
That’s thanks to a new poster by Outreach Media based on the challenging command from Jesus to love our enemies, even when that enemy is an outfit as brutal and merciless as ISIS.
On first sight, the poster looks like the ISIS flag but look a little closer and you’ll see it replaces the Arabic text of the original with the words of Jesus telling his followers to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” – Matthew 5.44.
The original ISIS flag declares: “There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
Outreach Media has made this its November poster in the hopes that it will “contrast the love of Christ with the … cruel behaviour of ISIS”.
The ministry said the poster had been created in response to requests from churches for a poster that would capture their solidarity with Christians suffering persecution at the hands of the Islamic State… Read More
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