Attack Evangelism

Here's a great article/interview of Emir Caner that a friend passed on to me. He's much more balanced in this interview than he usually is. He makes some great points about not compartmentalizing our faith and speaking honestly with Muslims.

There are those though that tend to be very apologetic-argument focused, and even proponents of what I'd label ‘attack evangelism.’ You can see that in statements like ‘even though they worship a false God.’ I don’t think many would make that statement about the Jews… the fact is Muslims have about as close a picture of the God of the Bible as the Jews. They don't have the complete picture, but it's a stretch to say they worship a completely false God.

For some reason many writers are pretty anti-Islam in their writing. Most who are American, even American former Muslim like the Caner brothers, have a very negative approach. I'm not a big fan of these kind of writings because it propagates the whole lie that all Muslims are terrorists… I’d challenge the interpretation of the statistic Caner quotes in this interview, because everything else I’ve seen contradicts it. 25% of Muslims may ‘sympathize’ and can understand the terrorist’s motivation, but it doesn’t mean they condone terrorism, or are anti-American. I, as one who knows Islam and Arabs well, understand the terrorists' motivation, but it doesn’t mean I’m in agreement. Attacking Muslims has never accomplished anything positive in evangelistic efforts.

Come on Christians! Let's major on GRACE, let's demonstrate the hope and peace and the love of Christ instead of emphasizing the wrong and nit-picking the speck in our Muslim brother's eye, while we have huge logs in our own. One whole chapter I'm writing for The Outer Court is called "Dealing with the Log". Click on the Book section to register and read more... We've got to deal collectively with the major issues within Christendom before we can exercise liberty in criticizing a small minority of terrorist Muslims.