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A response to Chawkat Moucarry's 'A Lifelong Journey with Islam'


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DARYL MCKILLIAN

June 12, 2012  7:34pm

This article highlighted the great challenges and tension between Christians & Muslims. Thoughtful, respectful dialogue is a great starting point, but by no means the end game. Sure it is reasonable to expect to convert Muslins as we converse with them, but we must go beyond dialogue. A professor on Islam said in class today that if we really want to convert Muslims then we need to engage them at every level. We need to hire them as employees, befriend them, live next door to them and allow them to see through our lifestyle and love that Christianity is superior to Islam & not through our rhetoric. Sure we need to coherently communicate the Gospel and not fudge on our doctrinal distinctives one bit. We will never argue Muslims into the Kingdom but we can love them into the Kingdom.

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