Muslims live in virtually every section of the country and there is no reason why every Muslim community cannot be reached with the gospel

Muslims live in virtually every section of the country and there is no reason why every Muslim community cannot be reached with the gospel.

This is one of my 18 Truths About Reaching Muslims in America With the Gospel.

The idea seems to be catching on and there’s an important opportunity to get the gospel to Muslims you know in their own language right now.

The 16-lanugage DVD, The Life of Jesus Christ is becoming available for mass distribution among Muslims in America. This is the same JESUS film that has been used by missionaries around the world for the last two decades. It’s based entirely on the Gospel According to Luke and it’s unquestionably the most-translated and most-watched film in history.

There are several great things about this DVD version of the film.

First, it’s one DVD packaged in a simple, but colorful cardboard sleeve. So it’s easy to keep a copy or two with you to be ready to give it out anytime you run into a Muslim.

Second, when the DVD is inserted, you get a choice of 16 languages to watch the movie – all this on one DVD! And the dubbing of each language is excellent. You don’t feel like you’re watching an old Japanese karate movie when you see it!

Third, it’s cost-effective. DVDs are cheap to produce and distribute. There are a number of inexpensive options:

• If you volunteer to help out on a distribution team, you will be given the DVDs.
• If you want to get a few copies for yourself or your church, the cost can be very low.
• If you or your chuch will personally distribute 200 or more DVDs to Muslims in the U.S., and give a report on the distribution, you can get them for free.

There is a group called Christ for All Peoples which is making this possible. This is what they say on their website:

Millions of foreign-born persons from all walks of life have entered the United States in the last several years–many from hard-to-reach nations.  Nearly 600,000 of them are international students studying here this year.  The majority of these immigrants have never heard nor had access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Our goal at Christ for All Peoples is to bridge the cultural divide and encourage and assist the church to share the Good News of Jesus with these ethnic groups here in the USA–many from countries in the 10/40 Window–and to do so quickly.  Your help is welcomed and needed!

Please leave a comment here and share your story about using the Jesus DVD in cross-cultural outreach.

Evangelism is terrorism says Algerian Religious Affairs Minister Ghoulamullah

A March 28 report from Compass Direct explains the closure of 19 churches in Algeria and the detention of Christians caught carrying Bibles. 

“I equate evangelism with terrorism,” Religious Affairs Minister Ghoulamullah said in an article in L’Expression on February 12.

Thanks to Jihad Watch for the alert about this story.

Adopt a Terrorist for Prayer

A while back I wrote a short pamplet called Islamic Terrorism and Muslim Terrorists: A Prayer Guide for Christians.

Now some friends have started a project called Adopt A Terrorist for Prayer. They also have a youtube video here.

Retired Kuwaiti pop star Hussein al-Ahmad joins al-Qaeda after having dream

Story on Al Arabiya New Channel.

Also see: 5 Muslims visited by Jesus Christ and Muslims are seeing Jesus during Ramadan.

UPDATE: See this Arabic language video report: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3582681422901641577

Witnessing to Black Muslims & the Nation of Islam

I came across three links today on the Answering Islam site that deal with Black Muslims and the Nation of Islam:

Which Roots?

Who Was the Real Slave Master?

and

I Was a Minister in the Nation of Islam

All three of these links are also on the front page of Truth For Muslims.

5 Muslims visited by Jesus Christ

Tonight is Halloween. A night when people celebrate the dark side of the supernatural by pretending they believe in it.

The Dark Invisible

Well, we who are in Christ know the Truth (for He Is the Truth): the supernatural does exist – but it’s not something to live in fear of.

I lived in Afghanistan for years, and I can tell you that Muslims all over the world believe strongly in the existence of the supernatural. It terrifies them. Many of them still hold to animist superstitions, forever tormented by the fear of “jinn” (mischievous or malicious demons). Because they accept the existence
of the unseen world, but have no relationship with a personal God and Savior, they are at the mercy of a multitude of dark forces, real or imagined.

Light Made Flesh

Jesus comes to ransom us from this darkness “into the Kingdom of His marvelous light.” And He’s doing the same for Muslims.

For years, I’ve heard tales of Muslims across the world coming to Christ after seeing Him in a vision or a dream. There are just too many of these stories to discount. (As an interesting note, the same thing has been happening to a number of media leaders – mostly Jews – in Hollywood. Pray for both groups.)

More Than Dreams

Now, just recently, a Christian film company has produced a DVD chronicling the true stories of five Muslims who were visited by Jesus Christ on their road to salvation. It’s called More Than Dreams.

Each of the five stories is dramatized and re-enacted, and is narrated in the original “heart language” by the real-life believer (not an actor). Every segment is followed up by a pastor’s explanation of how one can become a follower of Christ – also in the original language, making the disc a powerful evangelistic tool for five language groups: Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian, Farsi (Iran), and Hausa (Nigeria). Each segment is from 25 to 45 minutes long.

How to Get a Copy

Truth For Muslims intends to stock these DVDs.

And here’s another good thing:

The whole film is available for viewing online for FREE.

The compression quality is even pretty good. Just visit www.morethandreams.org and click on
one of the five stories. They’re all subtitled in English. (The DVDs will also have English dubbing available as a second audio track.)

I’m really excited about this film, both as an encouragement to the Church and as a tool for reaching Muslims. I hope you’ll check it out right now, and get a copy from Truth For Muslims as soon
as they’re available. These stories are powerful.

Muslims Are Seeing Jesus During Ramadan

For an number of years I’ve heard many reports about Muslims who have dreams about Jesus during Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.

According to a September 21 report in Christian World News, Brother Andrew of Open Doors International said, “Jesus often appears in a vision or in a dream, especially in this time of Ramadan. They’re so concentrated on spiritual things and on heavenly things and on the God they’re seeking. Every Muslim is still a seeker for God, and then it so often happens, all over the Muslim world, that Jesus appears and they get a changed heart or a strong desire to follow that man who was in my room, who said, ‘I’m Jesus, I came to heal you, I came to save you, I died for you, I want you to be with me in heaven.’”

During the month of Ramadan, many Muslims are seeking for an experience with God. They hope that God will be near to them, especially on the “night of power,” which is believed by Muslims to be the day Mohammed supernaturally received the Quran.

For several decades now, Christians have organized to pray for Muslims during the month of Ramadan.  This year the initiative led by 30-Days International is dubbed “Loving Muslims Through Prayer.”

According to The Christian Post, “Some former Muslims who lived in areas where they have no contact with Christians and no chance of hearing the Gospel have said they had dreams and visions of Jesus which spurred them to seek more information about Jesus Christ, eventually resulting in their conversion.”

Indeed Muslims around the world are discovering the truth of Jesus Christ. And in doing so, their lives are changed and they experience the reality written by the Apostle Paul 2,000 years ago to the early Christians:

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)

I’ve seen this reality in the lives of former Muslims around the world. Some are bold witnesses for the risen Jesus. They have carefully considered the cost of discipleship and have taken up their cross as followers of Christ.

And they are shaking the Islamic world to its very foundations.

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This just in from a post at Free Republic:

Knowing God

You can know God.

God is incomprehensible, so nobody can fully understand God.

But the knowledge of God is possible, He can be known.

“And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.” (John 17:3)

“I invite you to embrace Islam” Osama bin Laden

Sporting a freshly dyed beard, Osama is asking Americns to embrace Islam.

This is Islamic missionary work. Osama is engaging in dawa, Muslim evangelism 101.

The mosques all across America are ready, willing, and able to accept a fresh batch of converts, or as the Muslims say, reverts. The message is the same, whether it comes from Osama or the American Muslim leaders: there is one god and Mohammed is his messenger. They are all on the same page, working toward the same goal.

Meanwhile, I still have a Pashto New Testament reserved for the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. Osama, if you see this message, please let me know how I can get the Pashto New Testament to him. I lost contact with his buddies in New York in 2001. Thanks.

Dr.Yousuf Estes, an American convert to Islam

Thanks to one of our Muslim friends, I’ve now heard about Dr. Yusuf Estes,¹ an American convert to Islam.

He is described as an active Christian who converted to Islam. By the way, the Muslims like to call such people “reverts” instead of converts because they say everyone is born a Muslim in submission to Allah.

You can read about Dr. Estes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Estes

Here is a link to one of his lectures:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7657333391410735923&pr=goog-sl

Maybe some of my Christian friends can help do some research about Dr. Estes and post their findings here. It would be helpful to have some explanations for our Muslim friends about a biblical perspective of “Christians” converting to Islam.

¹Yousuf can also be spelled Yusuf.