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Lingenfelter also reiterated the seminary's belief "that Christians, Muslims and Jews worshiped the same Creator and God of Abraham but had different understandings of the divine nature," says the Times, and "said that pledges against proselytizing one another's communities would apply only to the two-year peacemaking project and would not prevent either side from sharing their respective faiths during that time in what Fuller scholar J. Dudley Woodberry called gracious evangelism."

So what's the difference between gracious evangelism and proselytizing? And to whom will the statement apply? Unfortunately, while most of the questions surrounding this document could be answered by a simple look at the draft document, it doesn't seem to be available anywhere online (and Weblog doesn't engage in original reporting for this feature). If it gets posted, or if there are more developments on this story, we'll be sure to keep you informed.

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