My faith was enriched by meeting people from other faith background

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My own faith as a Christian has
grown stronger, I think,

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because of my work like this
refugee work here at Jubilee

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with people from
Buddhist backgrounds,

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from Hindu or
Muslim backgrounds,

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other backgrounds.

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Partly because we have seen so
many warm hearted mothers and

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fathers and families that have
come here for those

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other backgrounds, who also
love each other,

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who love their children, who put the
same values into action

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that I believe Jesus taught and that I
tried to follow as a Christian

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and love bridges those gaps.

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And very often the people who
are most concerned about oh

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keep those Muslims out,
it's because they teach

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I would say for me a
kind of

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a different kind of Christianity.

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They don't really hear what
Jesus said about reaching out

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to your neighbor,
loving your neighbors,

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loving even your enemies,
loving the Samaritans,

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who are very different from Jews
of Jesus time.

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And he talked constantly about
reaching out across

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and loving people when they
are your neighbors.

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My own faith as a Christian has grown
deeper, not shallower, but deeper.

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And I want to be more like Jesus
was as I'm convinced he was

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toward people with different faiths.

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It doesn't mean I
want to become a Muslim.

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No, I want to become even more
of a Christian because I love

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the Muslims around me and I
feel that from them as well.

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Yeah.