I understand that these memories live on and are even reinforced by current situations like Bosnia. I want to assure you that this has all nothing to do with the message Jesus has commanded us to preach and with the character we are supposed to display. And though I personally had nothing to do with the Crusades of old, I also have to bow ashamed before God's holy commands, and I am sorry for those times where I myself in the heat of the argument have offended anyone. It never was my intention. We are admonished in God's Word and it is my desire to speak the truth in love.
Nobody has absolute understanding of all truth.
And I am learning and growing, often accompanied by errors and sometimes painful ones. I am a fellow pilgrim in the quest for truth and deeper understanding, but I want to share with those who are on the same way that which I have already found and which has enriched my life. And the wonderful gift of forgiveness through the death of Jesus, my Savior, is part of what I cannot keep just to myself. When I ask hard questions, then it is not in order to try to make Muslims look ridiculous, but it is in the hope that you will start to think about those issues which in my conviction are of utmost importance. We cannot afford any blind faith, but have to know what we believe and why we believe it, and as best we can, make sure what we believe is really the truth.