AN ACCOUNT OF THE RAPID SPREAD OF ISLAM IN ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE, THE METHODS EMPLOYED TO
OBTAIN PROSELYTES, ITS IMMENSE PRESS, ITS
STRONGHOLDS, & SUGGESTED MEANS TO BE
ADOPTED TO COUNTERACT THE EVIL
AN ACCOUNT OF THE RAPID SPREAD OF ISLAM IN ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE, THE METHODS EMPLOYED TO
OBTAIN PROSELYTES, ITS IMMENSE PRESS, ITS
STRONGHOLDS, & SUGGESTED MEANS TO BE
ADOPTED TO COUNTERACT THE EVIL
I was 18 years old when the Lord placed a burden on my heart to bring the gospel to Muslims. A year later, I married my high school sweetheart, who had led me to Christ during my senior year. Two years later, we and three teammates set off to plant a church in a 100% Muslim country.
Needless to say, we were young, ambitious and a little naïve. We were also unprepared, but our youthful zeal carried us onward. Despite our intentions to be like the Apostle Paul and “preach Christ where He was not known,” we found ourselves back home, after only two years, with our faith barely intact. Looking back, I can now see that we had bitten off far more than we could chew. We approached our training for Muslim ministry more like a sprint rather than a marathon. We made incredible friendships with Muslims yet we had little to offer them, regarding a relationship with Jesus. We knew very little about Christianity and almost nothing about Islam. Simply put, we were ill-equipped for the task we were sent out to do. If not for the grace of God…
The missionary among Moslems (to whom the Cross of Christ is a stumbling-block and the atonement foolishness) is driven daily to deeper meditation on this mystery of redemption and to a stronger conviction that here is the very heart of our message and our mission. The secret of the missionary passion.