2013-10-07T08:11:00-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/islam/ http://faithgateway.com/arab-spring-or-islamic-winter/ 2013-10-07T08:11:00-05:00 Muslim Brotherhood: Jihad Is the Way Who then is the Muslim Brotherhood? Their founder, Hassan al-Banna, established the group—Jama’at al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin—in 1928 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. He based the Muslim Brotherhood on the premise that Islam is the solution. Its motto is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The […] http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/seventh-century/muhammad/ 2011-06-27T15:14:41-05:00 The prophet Muhammad’s interactions with paganism, Judaism, and Christianity birthed puzzling prophecies and a legacy of strife. From the pages of Christian History magazine. http://truewoman.com/?id=1655 2011-04-15T10:16:57-05:00 The kingdom of God needs women who know the truth about their religion and about the battle and its dimensions and know what is expected of them. http://thepeopleofthebook.org/strategyQuotes.html 2010-09-30T20:26:03-05:00 Bible verses and quotations from commentaries that support the idea of an "insider" approach when ministering in the Muslim world. http://thepeopleofthebook.org/strategyInsiderArticles.html 2010-09-30T20:25:09-05:00 Some classic articles related to the Insider Movement. http://thepeopleofthebook.org/C1-C6_Spectrum.html 2010-09-30T20:24:34-05:00 A basic summary of the C1-C6 spectrum. http://truewoman.com/?id=1099 2010-09-08T12:18:53-05:00 An Islamic cleric recently blamed earthquakes on immodest female clothing. Outraged by this statement, Jennifer McCreight, a 22-year-old student at Purdue University in Indiana, invited women to . . . http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/356 2010-08-09T15:34:14-05:00 To share with Muslims, we do need to understand how they think. Here are several articles to help us think through these issues: * The Missing Father – explaining a Trinitarian Concept of God to Muslims * Understanding shame cultures – completely different to the culture you probably belong to * Oral Communication Cultures – although Muslims are people of the book, they are also within a broadly oral communication culture (as indeed are many westerners who do not get much information from print media) http://internetevangelismday.com/shame-cultures.php 2010-08-07T18:30:37-05:00 I have discovered that one of the most difficult aspects of evangelizing Muslims is getting them to appreciate their need for a savior. I have found the Islamic doctrine of God and Man to be such that Muslims tend to be unaware of their sinfulness and inability to save themselves.1 As a result, convincing a Muslim to embrace Jesus as the blood sacrifice for his sins usually requires considerable time and pre-evangelistic effort. http://gospel.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/30/when-church-leaders-trip-up-liberty-and-the-ergun-caner-situation/ 2010-07-07T08:54:00-05:00 When a Christian leader makes mistakes, how are we to approach the situation? The Ergun Caner controversy raises some questions about how we handle "pulpit sins"... and about the "celebrity culture" within the church.