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Jonathan Chan
Osama bin Laden and the Lamb Who Was Slain
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Like just about every other American, I can tell you where I was, what I was doing, and how I heard the news on that September day. But that’s not the memory that’s been replaying in my head throughout the last week. Rather, my thoughts keep going back to an otherwise ordinary service in the deeply conservative Baptist church I was raised in. A family friend, who had served with the USO during World War 2, stood up and prayed the most shocking prayer I’ve ever heard in my life. He prayed for the salvation of Osama Bin Laden.
I remember hearing the emotions in his voice. A tinge of grief, yes, for his terrible crimes. But also a touch of joy, as if he was imagining Bin Laden meeting Jesus for the first time on a dusty road in Afghanistan. Undergirding it all was a deep sense of longing, borne out of a love for his enemy that could only come from God.
