I’ve written a little recently and shared some videos talking about how we engage with Muslims, how we get to know and love them as neighbours. I’ve discovered that nothing seems to get people’s ire as the suggestion that we should get to know and love Muslims.
The assumption seems to be that I’m naive and woke. Someone in response to one of my You Tube videos told me that I need to “awake from being woke” which seems a very confusing thing to try and do Im told that I must be ignorant of what Islam is about. I’m not, I just happen to distinguish Islam as an entity and Muslims as individuals.
So to be clear, yes you can go and read the Quran and see everything it has to say about infidels whether Christian, Jewish or other. You can also listen to some of the pronouncements of Islamic clerics and you can look at both current events around the world and history. I’m not in denial about those things.
However, what I’m aware of is that first, the call on us is to make disciples. That’s how Jesus has consistently called his people to respond to the different religions and ideologies we encounter in the World.
Secondly, surely the best response to Islamist ideology and any attempts at Islamisation is to respond by loving individual Muslims and sharing the good news of Jesus What do those with an Islamist/Islamisation agenda fear the most? Not, I would suggest, political opposition but rather, ordinary Muslims getting to know ordinary Christians.
Faithroots 