Evengelism to Muslim

Evangelize to Muslims...taken from
http://www.facebook.com/gansherlyn?v=info#/topic.php?uid=318457950205&topic=11602

More than 200 American Christians attended a conference in Indianapolis this past weekend to learn how to reach out to Muslims in North America.

Speakers at the Oasis Conference, hosted by Muslim outreach ministry Crescent Project, included two former Muslims and a pastor who was born and raised in the Middle East.

Attendees heard answers on questions such as: How can we reach out in love to our Muslim neighbors? How can we clearly present the gospel to Muslims without offending them? How can my congregation reach out to the Muslim community down the street? How can my student group reach out to Muslims on my campus?

As part of their effort to gain perspective on the lives of American Muslims, some Oasis attendees visited a mosque and witnessed a Friday prayer service.

Fouad Masri, Crescent Project founder and president, said the event was designed to mobilize, equip and encourage U.S. Christians to reach out to Muslims. He highlighted that there are only about two missionaries for every million Muslims in the world, "which means each one has to reach 500,000,” highlighted Masri, who was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, according to Mission Network News.

Masri said most Christians are afraid or don’t know where to begin to reach Muslims. But based on his long-time experience working with the growing population, he asserted that most Muslims want to know about Jesus and the Bible.

“Muslims are taking Bibles. Muslims talk about Jesus. We’ve seen people pray to receive Christ,” said the pastor who has been ministering to Muslims since 1979. “There’s such a hunger that we’ve never seen before because Islam has failed to answer the deepest questions.”

These deep questions include: Does God love me? Can I be sure my sins are forgiven? Can I be sure of eternal life?

“Our job is not to make the Muslim a Christian,” Fouad often reminds his audience, according to the ministry’s Web site. “Our job is to show them the love of Christ.”

Masri insists that Muslims are not “hard” to share the Gospel with. The issue rather is that they haven’t heard the Gospel, according to MNN.

The third-generation pastor is said to have trained nearly 11,000 North American Christians to “sensitively” and “purposefully” share their faith with Muslims.

Workshops at this year’s Oasis conference included: A Crash Course on Islam, A Muslims’ Mind: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Islamic Tradition; The History of the Qur’an; Understanding the Daughters of Ishmael; Reaching the Muslim Next Door; Remaining Faithful When Little Fruit is Evident; and The Campus: A Strategic and Non-Threatening Platform for Sharing Jesus with Muslims.

In total, more than 20 workshops in the categories of understanding Islam, ministry skills, mobilization, and apologetics were offered during the three-day Oasis conference.

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So as for me, I think although evangelism to Muslim is strictly illegal, there are many loopholes that we can exploit. Just as mentioned in the article above, they need to hear cause:
1) They deserve
2) It's our responsibility as per Matthew 28:19-20

So, how can we do that since it's "illegal" to share Christ to them? We should exploit the available loop holes in the constitution. There are 2 ways to break a law: breaking it literally or by exploiting the loopholes, known as legal methods of breaking it. Here are some suggestions:

1) Ask them for permission to meet their needs especially through prayer. This is one of the best ways for them to experience God's love. Should there be miracle that happened and they know it, they will be open to hear the gospel.
Here is a true testimony from Ipoh city: A Chinese Muslim and a Malay Muslim had a son whom they find difficult to train. They brought this kid to a Christian kindergarten because his sister had previously been sent to this kindergarten and her studies improved. Well the owner of this premise said, we are going to train him using Christian methods. They agreed seing that all methods have failed so why don't give Jesus a chance to change him and his rebellious behavious. The boy's behaviour changed within a few months. Later, after 1 year and several months later this kid was diagnosed with a lump growth which will cost RM60k operation to remove it with no gurantee of sucess. The owner of the premise asked them for permission to pray for the boy. Since its just a simple prayer, so why don't give Jesus a chance? After prayer, the boy went to the specialist to check. The doctor was amazed and certify that the lump is gone! Praise God! During the graduation, the mother testified. This kid went back to his village and share Christ with his family. Hey! God can use this 6 year old kid how about us? This kid's Malay father said to his son, you can believe but I can't (Note: Can't not don't want). This shows that the power of God and the love of God can impact them. Given the chance to have the freedom of choice of religion, I believe this whole family will believe in Jesus. They believe in their heart but they have yet to confess so we are praying for the day to come that this whole family will believe in their heart and confess that Christ is their saviour.

2) Let them ask! Since we can't share openly to them, there is no law statement in Malaysian constitution that we cannot answer question posted by them about our faith. Therefore don't waste the opportunity if God gets them to ask us!

3) Discuss. We can't share openly but we can discuss about our faith. This is a way to evengelize. This actually got an uztaz saved in Malaysia because he finds that the faith that he believe does not offer him what he can find in Christianity. He is now a member of the underground church who is actively engaging his fellow Malays who are Muslim now. Praise God!

Now...how can we do points 2 & 3? We can do so only if we love them. That is how they will open up. Another point to it is to ask God to do miracles such as giving them dreams and work a miracle in their life. Muslims believe in angels and God can send angels to minister to them as in a case that happened to an underground church member in north Perak state where both miracle and the angel of God appearing to this family cause them to want to know Jesus and thank God for Christians who fear not that shared to them.

God bless. These are ways we can win Malaysia for Christ. The gospel was never limited to Chinese, Indians, expraitrates, native Malaysians or the mix races. It was also meant for the Malay and Muslims who are one of the least reached groups. 1 Malaysia. 1 King and Lord - Jesus Christ. Let's bring them to give their allegience to the right King and Lord. Everybody deserves the Gospel of salvation!