Evangelizing
Muslims is a Calling God will Honor.
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“Behold,
a sower went forth to sow.”
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The
Cross and the Crescent (excerpt): For all kinds of reasons,
evangelizing the Islamic world presents a tough challenge. But it is
no more impossible than evangelizing the Roman world was for the
first disciples. The apostle Peter tells us that evangelism is the
main reason for the establishment of the Church (1 Peter 2:9-10). A
glance at the book of Acts will show that the early believers
evangelized fearlessly (Acts 2:8, 4:20,29; 8:4, 13:1-4). Every
Christian sharing in the Lord's Supper is reminded that “as
often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
Lord's death till He comes” (1 Cor 11:26).
God
never orders the impossible. When he commands the Church to
evangelize to the ends the earth, He equips believers with what it
takes to obey. This is why He must be obeyed without reservation. You
cannot call Him “Lord,” and say “no” to Him. The Lord does
not take a “no” from His followers; to call God “Lord” and
then say “no” to Him is a contradiction in terms.
When the
Lord orders, He empowers His people to obey.
“Who
ever goes to War at his own expense?” asked Paul in 1
Corinthians 9:7. What is more, when we obey Him, He guarantees the
results. He is always on the throne. Before Jesus delegated his
disciples to witness for Him, He told them, “All authority has
been given to me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18). To
those who obey and go, He says, “I am with you always, even to
the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).
Also,
remember that you are not the one doing the conversion work. You are
sowing the seed of the word of God. In the parable Jesus told in
Matthew 13:1-9, nobody asked the sower to check if the ground was
good or thorny or stony. His job was to scatter grain. In the same
way, the conversion of the heart is something only the Holy Spirit
can accomplish.
Paul had
no delusions about this. He asked the Corinthians, “What, after
all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you
come to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I
planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So
neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God,
who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have
one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building”
(1 Corinthians 3:5-9).
-- Abdul
Hadi
International
Bible scholar,
apologist
and evangelist
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Bill
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