Muslims Are Open to the Gospel Like Never Before
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🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
How can I share Christ with Muslims when I don’t know more about Islam? What if I can’t answer all their questions? What can I do to overcome my fear of sharing the gospel?
Fouad Masri, founder and president of Crescent Project, answers these questions and more in his new book Sharing Jesus with Muslims: A Step-By-Step Guide (affiliate link). For more than 30 years, Masri has been training Christians how to share Jesus with Muslims. He says Muslims are more open today than ever to hearing the gospel, and many are actively searching for Christian books or information online.
Yet many Christians are still fearful to reach out to Muslims. Fouad says his goal is to move believers from fear and fascination to compassion, and it is that passion that led to this new book.
Fouad encourages us to pray for God to open the door for friendships and conversation with the Muslims we meet in our work, school or community. He says one of the first challenges is to learn to listen. Listen to what our Muslim friends are telling us and listen for God to open the door for a spiritual conversation. Listen as Fouad shares an example from his own life when he really didn’t want to have a deep conversation but realized the Lord had already been at work preparing his new friend to hear the gospel.
He will also discuss Christian persecution of Muslim-background believers in the context of western nations. Do MBB’s face pressure and persecution in the United States as they do in Middle Eastern nations like Egypt, Saudi Arabia or Yemen?
Pray the openness of Muslims right now will result in a great harvest of people coming to know Christ in a personal way. If you want to learn more about sharing your faith with Muslims, Crescent Project’s Sahara Challenge provides an in-depth training on how to serve unreached Muslims locally and globally. The event is offered in-person from May 1st-3rd in Nashville or online from May 23rd-25th.
Would you like to hear more about how God is working in the Muslim world? You’ll be encouraged as you listen to more stories of Muslims who came to faith, like Rachid from Morocco, Al Fadi in Saudi Arabia, and Benesh in Iran.
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| 0:00.0 | Fouad Mosque interacts with Muslims all over the world and here's what he's been seeing and |
| 0:06.3 | experiencing in recent years. There is an openness like never before. I'll be honest with you |
| 0:12.9 | we've never seen Muslims this open. Muslims are downloading Bibles, Muslims are getting baptized, |
| 0:18.8 | so there is an openness like never before. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:26.4 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep |
| 0:31.5 | among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles and they're still coming |
| 0:36.8 | true today in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton. We hear |
| 0:41.9 | their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton. We are |
| 0:51.6 | connected today with Fouad Mosque. He is the founder and the president of the Crescent Project. |
| 0:57.3 | In fact, we were just discussing this is the 30th anniversary year for the Crescent Project. |
| 1:02.8 | So for 30 years, they have been teaching Christians how to share their faith with Muslims and how to |
| 1:08.4 | do it with confidence, how to do it with love, how to do it with courtesy. And we're excited, Fouad, |
| 1:14.4 | to have you back here on Voice of the Martyrs Radio. Welcome. Thank you, Todd. Big to be with you. |
| 1:19.2 | God is faithful. God is faithful. Fouad, you've just written a book called sharing Jesus with |
| 1:25.6 | Muslims and I have a copy with me here. Why this new book? You've written other books about this. |
| 1:33.0 | You have actually written books that are designed to be given to a Muslim to help them |
| 1:38.0 | think about faith, think about biblical topics. What is the purpose or what is the passion that |
| 1:43.3 | led to this new book? Yeah, in the last four years, we have grown and we have been doing things |
| 1:49.2 | that we've never done before. So we're doing church planning. We're talking to people who are |
| 1:53.9 | direct evangelism sharing directly with them the full gospel. And we discovered that still there's |
| 2:00.0 | a lack of understanding among the believers on moving from fascinations to compassion. A lot of |
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