Muslim Converted to Christianity Amazing News for Zakir Naik, Br. Imran ...

16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:16

In this day and age it is possible to get caught up in the anger against all Muslim people. Simply listening to the anti Muslim rhetoric on the news casts will get any scared American angry and at the end of the newscast they want to pick up their pitch fork and kill these evil people. We dehumanize this singular people group without even remotely considering that these are people  God loves and wants to become followers of Christ.

In a book entitled 'A wind in the house of Islam: How God is drawing Muslims around the world to faith in Jesus Christ, the author takes the reader on a journey through what he describes as the 9 rooms in the Muslim majority world: Indo-Malaysia, East Africa, North Africa, Eastern South Asia, Western South Asia, Persia, Turkestan, West Africa, and the Arab world. Muslims in each of those regions have created indigenous, voluntary movements to Christ. The article can be found at this link:http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/april-web-only/why-muslims-are-becoming-best-evangelists.html

When a Muslim converts to Christ there is tremendous grief that happens within him.  In the Muslim world becoming a Christian is akin to sacrificing all of your previous family relationships. In many homes you simply cease to exist and in the eyes of the their parents you are considered dead. 

 Think for a moment of the tremendous loneliness a newly converted Muslim must feel as he sees Christian families getting together spreading cheer to their children and you as a Muslim can't even go home to see your parents or siblings unless you want to risk getting killed. 

 Since I grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota which was  home to a large population of Jewish people the same isolation occurs when they come to Christ.  In many Jewish homes they cease to recognize the newly converted Christian believer. They are dead to their parents.  In the series of videos about the Jews for Jesus movement you will get a glimpse on how God is using this movement to spread his message of salvation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxMahcBafVk

I can't help but think how God is using Jewish and Muslim believers  to radically evangelize the world in the final days before Christ return. Perhaps, this was part of God's story line when  Abraham's son Ishmael and Hagar, Sarah's maid servant, were sent away into the wilderness. 

Maybe it is time for all of us to turn off talk radio and allow God to talk to us through the pages of scriptures regarding his love for all people and his desire to use any means to bring people to Christ.

I love listening to testimonies of lives changed  through the simple commitment to Christ. I am especially drawn to testimonies of former Muslims and Jewish people coming to Christ. In both of these people groups they  leave behind the daily rituals for true freedom  of knowing that Jesus Christ died for all of their sins. 

This man shares how he came to the realization that Jesus was the Son of God and he did rise from the dead.  He shares a little about the grief he went through leading up to and after he made that commitment. 

As you attend church this morning ask yourself this question: Lord please lead me to a Muslim or a Jewish believer in Jesus so I can invite them over for the holidays. They crave the experience of being with family as much as you do.