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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Moving to a new place can be difficult, especially if you don’t know anyone in your new community. Muslims from across the world have moved to America for work or school yet they are often ignored by those around them—even Christians. Fouad Masri, president of the Crescent Project, says our job as believers is not to convert anyone, but to shine the light of Jesus and rely on him to draw our Muslim friends to himself.

Masri is the author of a new book, Sharing Jesus with Muslims: A Step-By-Step Guide (affiliate link). Listen in as he talks about conversational apologetics, thought-provoking questions to ask a Muslim friend, and myths still circulating within the Muslim world about the Christian faith. You’ll also hear Fouad’s joy as he shares about his ministry and stories of Muslims coming to Christ.

With over 30 years of sharing the gospel with Muslims, Fouad reminds us we are not called to bring anything new, but to pray for sincere hearts ready to receive the gospel. He emphasizes that we should pray for the leading of the Holy Spirit to help answer Muslims who are seeking spiritual truth, and to ask questions that provoke self-examination.

Jesus is building his church among former Muslims—including inside hostile and restricted nations where Christian persecution is common and among Muslims living in the United States and other nations with more religious freedom. To learn more about how to witness and build bridges cross culturally with Muslims, sign up for the Sahara Challenge in Nashville, TN from May 1-3, or join online from May 23-25.

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0:00.0	Muslims travel from across the world to the United States for school or for work
0:06.0	Fouad Mastri says often when Muslims move to an American neighborhood
0:11.0	They don't feel welcome people ignore them and it's sad you meet Muslims have lived in this country and they would tell you
0:19.2	I have no Christian friends
0:22.9	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path in fact
0:26.6	He told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves
0:32.6	Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world
0:39.8	Join host Todd Nettleton's we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the voice of martyrs radio network
0:47.6	For the next 25 minutes or so you have the opportunity to learn how to reach out to Muslims with friendship
0:54.6	And you're about to be prepared for how to engage when those friendships lead to conversations about Jesus Christ
1:02.4	Fouad Mastri is our guest. He is the founder and the president of the crescent project
1:07.8	For the last 30 years the crescent project has taught Christians how to share their faith with Muslims
1:14.9	Fouad Mastri has written a new book called sharing Jesus with Muslims
1:19.1	He started telling us about it last week if you missed that conversation
1:23.4	I hope you'll go listen to it on our website
1:26.0	v o m radio dot net or you can find voice of the martyrs radio wherever you listen to podcast
1:32.2	Let's get back to part two of our conversation with Fouad Mastri
1:39.3	We had a previous guest here on voice of the martyrs radio and he
1:44.0	He talked about the fact that a lot of Islamic teaching
1:47.8	Almost inoculates you
1:50.5	Against the gospel like some of it almost seems like they planned it so that when you came along and shared the gospel
1:56.6	For instance, you know, we want to share a Bible with you. Well
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