Can Christians attend interfaith services?

Christians should not participate in interfaith services that promote religious unity at the expense of biblical truth. While we are called to love our neighbors and live peaceably with all, worship and prayer are acts of covenant loyalty to the one true God. Mixing them with false religions dishonors Him.

2 Corinthians 6:14–15 warns:

“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”

Interfaith services often present all religions as equally valid paths to God, which directly contradicts Jesus’ exclusive claim in John 14:6:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Participation in such services can imply endorsement of idolatry and confuse the gospel message. Paul confronted this issue in 1 Corinthians 10:20–21:

“Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God… You cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.”

The early church faced pressure to blend in with Roman religious practices. Faithful believers refused, even at the cost of persecution. Today, the same principle holds: loyalty to Christ means separation from religious compromise.

This does not mean avoiding all dialogue or kindness toward those of other faiths. But it does mean that Christian worship must remain distinct, holy, and faithful to the gospel.

God is not honored when His people join in services that elevate other gods or deny the exclusive lordship of Jesus Christ. Christians are called to proclaim the truth, not to participate in ceremonies that obscure it.

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