Islam presents the Church the greatest opportunity for evangelism in
world history, if you know how to evangelize the Muslim.
I've encountered so many Muslims seeking
to understand God, or trying to convert me to Islam, which just opens the
door for me to share the Gospel with them. From these experiences, I'm
going to share with you six different ways that you can reach a Muslim
for Christ.
1) The Bible is okay to read. In the Muslim holy book called the Koran, Sura 5:50 and 68 says that Mohammad gave an okay thumbs up for the
Muslim to read the Bible. If you give anyone the Word of God, the Holy
Spirit speaks through it.
The following is a testimony off of an ex-Muslim website by a real
ex-Muslim girl from Iran who calls herself Fars.........
"I left Islam for several reasons. Originally because I was sent by my
grandmother to a mullah to learn the Islamic prayer. I was taught this
in Arabic, which as a Persian, I didn't understand one word of it. When
I asked this mullah what the heck it meant and what I was saying, he
said it wasn't important that I know, just that I say it with all my
heart. Say what with all my heart? He then complained to my grandmother
that I was too questioning for a girl and should be talked to. Whatever.
I finally bought an English translation of the Koran; I was appalled. No
wonder the Mullah didn't want me to know what it all meant. When I read
some of the passages in English to my mother she was shocked with
disbelief. 'That can't be right!' She couldn't believe it and she had
been a Moslem all her life and never knew exactly what the Koran said.
She and my sister have both also left Islam.
That is the tragic legacy especially in Iran which had Islam forced on
it by Arabs. That is why educated college students are up in arms
because they are finally beginning to understand what Islam really means
and says."
Once Fars could read the Bible in her own language, she gave her life to
Christ. So, it's okay for a Muslim to read the Bible, and you can tell
them that.
2) The life of Christ. The following is a real testimony of a man from
Morocco named Ibn Zakaria..............
"I left Islam because I didn't find peace with it. Since my childhood, I
had a lot of questions in my mind about human rights in Islam, women's
rights, eternal life and about the life of Mohammed. I started looking
for answers, by reading the Bible and comparing the life of Mohammed to
that of the Lord Jesus Christ. I found myself far from Islam and
enlightened by the Gospel and the truth of the Word of God."
When you hold up the life of Mohammed - a killer, a murderer, a wife
stealer, a child molester, a liar - and put it up against Jesus Christ
who is sinless, loving, holy, and died for us - the Muslim is shocked.
They can't believe the differences. The Jesus taught in the Koran isn't
that Jesus at all. Of course, anyone is attracted to someone who lays
down their life for them. Tell them what Jesus did for them by dying for
their sins.
3) The love of God. Abdel Masih of Egypt shared how he became saved...........
"I was born in Egypt to a Muslim family. I think in looking back that
maybe my family was loving because it was liberal in its approach to
Islam. It was loving not because of Islam but in spite of it. When I
began to study I saw that the Koran was very filled with hate and not
enough on love. Christianity seemed so much more familiar and the Sermon
on the Mount is a teaching after my own heart. There is nothing like it
in the Islamic literature."
God is love. You know Muslims don't know love from Allah whatsoever.
They see these mullahs on TV and they are angry and yelling all the
time. It's a religion of hate. A Muslim like any person wants to know
love, and you can reach them by telling them of the love of God.
4) The assurance of salvation. Mounif of
Morocco writes this testimony.............
"My father was and still is an imam in a mosque. I had many questions
about my place in Paradise, but there was no answer."
Muslims have no assurance of salvation except for one thing, and that is
to die a martyr. To kill infidels by your own death is the only
assurance they have of salvation. Why do you think that certain Muslims
are willing to blow themselves up? That's the only way they can get into
Paradise.
You instead can assure them that through Jesus Christ, who died once and
for all for their sins, they can have the assurance of Heaven with their
Father.
5) Grace. Sinbad of India shared his
story........
"I had of course gone through the whole process of learning about Islam
and the do's and don'ts, and had always tried to practice it but always
was struggling as if I was forever carrying a great load on my back, as
if I was in a prison. After I left I felt as if I had just been released
from prison."
Islam is like shackles to a Muslim. They feel it. They know it. But,
when you teach them about the grace of God, that there's nothing you can
do to be saved, that God did it all and that Jesus Christ paid for their
sins on the cross, then they feel relieved. Maybe you can look back at
the time when you got saved and you remember how it felt to have that
weight lifted off of you? Well, a Muslim is looking for that weight to
be lifted off of them as well.
6) A relationship with God. Cynthia from
America shared...........
"My fear of Allah became so intense that I hoped to get cancer and
therefore be punished for my sins on earth instead of after death. I
would scrub and cleanse my body in prayer so obsessively, that my hands
became cracked and bloody. Still, I continued to believe in a religion
that on the outside looked so moral and just.
Then I did something that I told my parents and myself I would never do.
I rented the movie The Passion of The Christ. I held back tears that
threatened to fall from my eyes until the short scene in the movie when
Mary Magdalene reverts back to the day when Jesus was the only person
who would accept her and love her. I began to cry as I suddenly realized
what my mother had been trying to tell me for years.
Finally, I
understood that God loved me and was not out to get me or do me harm. It
was also at that moment that I knew that Allah was not God.
I felt the love and protection of God all around me. I was no longer
scared to live and no longer scared to die. The world looked so
beautiful and I couldn't stop thanking God for saving me.
It has only been two weeks since I was saved by Jesus Christ, and they
have been the happiest two weeks of my life. Every day that I wake up I
am so grateful that God never left my side during my seven-year hiatus.
I feel like he was just patiently waiting for my return. I now live my
life with an inner peace and love for God that I cannot put into words.
Thank you Jesus for never leaving me!"
A relationship with God is one of the best ways to reach a Muslim for
Christ. Christians have a relationship with God, and not some distant,
unknowable being that could care less about them and wants their death
to prove their faith, but a God who loves them and cares for them. He's
the very Jesus you accepted.
Jesus Christ is coming soon. He will defeat Islam. He will defeat Satan.
And, I think during the Tribulation when you read in Revelation about
the multitudes that have accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour, I'd bet that
many of them are former Muslims, finally released from Islam's hold.
So, go out and share the Gospel with Muslims! Don't be scared of them.
Don't be scared, for they are seeking truth just like so many other
people. Free them of that burden of sin and judgment by sharing Jesus
Christ.