Thursday, November 01, 2007

Why Muslims Follow Jesus

JD Greear has an encouraging post entitled "Why Muslims Follow Jesus". He reports:
  • How Muslims consistently describe the dreams and visions they have. There is an eerie commonality in the dreams they experience. At least 3 different Muslims in my life have reported a supernatural dream to me, 2 of which converted to Christ and 1 didn't. And I got the Tennessee chill bumps when Woodberry reported of the Muslim who saw thousands of his own people in worship of God.
  • How many Muslims say that what stood out to them when they read the Bible is how loving and accessible God is. In their words, the Qu'ran emphasizes the threat of God's punishment, the Bible God's everlasting love. Woodberry says "In the Qur'an, although God loves those who love him, his love is conditional. He does not love those who reject faith (3:31-32). There is nothing in the Qur'an like, "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins" (1 John 4:10), or, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:8).
  • How many Muslims pointed to the assurance of salvation that Jesus offered as being attractive to them. Woodberry says, "One Indonesian woman spoke of her fear, based on a tradition attributed to Muhammad, that the bridge over hell to paradise is as thin as a hair."
  • That Christianity, contrary to popular folk lore, is growing faster than Islam is in the world, and it is mainly through conversion.
  • The disasters in Asia, Muslim-on-Muslim conflict and the imposition of Shariah law have produced an unprecedent openness to the Gospel among Muslims in the last 30 years. MORE MUSLIMS HAVE BECOME CHRISTIANS IN THE LAST 30 YEARS THAN IN ALL THE YEARS FROM MUHAMMAD UNTIL NOW COMBINED. Praise God!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for pointing this out. I look forward to reading the whole thing.