Communicating the Gospel To Muslims

[John317]

On a different dicussion, we've talked about the question of whether the Koran and the Bible agree and whether Allah is the God of the Bible. On this discussion, we want to go beyond that and talk about effective ways of reaching Muslims with the Gospel.

I'd like to propose the following questions that could be part of the discussion:

1) What's the best way for Christians to approach the Koran with the Muslims?

2) Is it a good idea for Christians to tell Muslims that Christians also worship Allah?

3) Do we want to leave them the impression that we worship the same Allah that is found in the Koran? If we do, isn't it possible for this to lead to confusion and misunderstanding?

3) At what point in the contact with Muslims should Christians talk about some of the differences between the Koran and the Bible?

4) How and when in the contact do we approach the subject of the reliability of the Bible, since Muslims are taught that the Bible has been corrupted?

5) It would be good if those who have had experience communicating the Gospel to Muslims would tell what they've learned.

6) What topics of study should be among the first that we have with Muslims?

7) What are some topics about which Christians need to be very careful in their contact with Muslims? Are there topics that might be offensive and need to be avoided altogether?

[Ron Amnsn]

In 2004 the International Journal of Frontier Missions published an article by Joshua Massey that discusses one method that is having success in reaching Muslims. It also discusses why some other methods are not successful.

Part 1: http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/21_1_PDFs/13_22_Massey2.pdf

Part 2: http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/21_2_PDFs/Massey.pdf

Although the author recognizes that modern converts from Islam will follow the example of the missionary who disciples them, he somehow fails to recognize that the same thing would have happened when Paul discipled the Gentiles in his day. Because Paul was Torah-observant, his Gentile converts would have also learned to be Torah-observant.