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Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus [Paperback]

Jerry Trousdale
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March 6, 2012

How do the people most resistant to the transformative power of the gospel come to be its most devoted followers? Miraculous Movement recounts an amazing change taking place within Muslim communities where the truth of Jesus Christ is turning around the lives of many thousands of Muslims from more than twenty people groups. Discover through the sometimes humorous, often sobering, but always enlightening and encouraging true stories how imams, sheikhs, and entire mosques are forsaking Islam and embracing Christ.

This close look at what the Lord is doing to spread the gospel highlights the key scriptural principles that help Christians reach out in love to share the gospel in their own community. The authors outline the principle of service to others that open doors of opportunity to the work of the gospel.

Author Jerry Trousdale works with CityTeam Ministries, an organization dedicated to helping disciples make disciples through CityTeam’s own ministry and through training other ministries in more than thirty countries.

Features includes:

  • Outlines important principles on how to share the gospel with non-Christians
  • Explains how ordinary people can lead neighbors to Christ in love and humility
  • Tells many exciting and encouraging stories of Muslims who have accepted Jesus
  • Describes CityTeam’s unique program focused on God’s work through disciple-making movements, a strategy that harnesses the power of disciples making disciples and churches planting churches

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About the Author

Jerry Trousdale is Director of International Ministries for CityTeam Ministries, an organization he joined in 2005. Jerry co-founded Final Command Ministries, an organization dedicated to establishing church planting movements among Muslim people groups. Over the years Jerry has served as a church planter among Muslims in West Africa, in Christian publishing, and as a pastor in California and Tennessee.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson (March 6, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 141854728X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1418547288
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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It is an amazing book about the real miracle stories happened nowadays. Dan Li  |  19 reviewers made a similar statement
Several things move within you when you read this book. Phillip M. Woeckener  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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Miraculous Movements is the best book on disciplemaking that I have read in some time.

This book is the fruit of a process of self-examination by two experienced Muslim-area church planters and the COO of a chain of disciplemaking Rescue Missions as they discussed what was working in their respective mission fields. Based on this discussion, they extracted and made explicit a methodology for making disciples in Muslim areas.

This book describes that methodology and illustrates it with actual cases of church planting in Muslim communities.

The book is well-organized and outlined for people who want to read it to learn how to be a missionary and church planter. Topics are presented as lists with examples from the mission field after each numbered point. Here are some of the lists.

As the authors thought about what was working, they decided they had been focusing on the "wrong" biblical principles. The ones they should have been focusing on were:
1. Go slow at first in order to go faster
2. Focus on a few to win many
3. Engage an entire family or group, not just the individual
4. Share only when people are ready to hear
5. Start with creation, not with Christ
6. It's about discovering and obeying, not teaching and knowledge
7. Disciple people to conversion, not vice versa
8. Coach people from the beginning to discover and obey biblical truth
9. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but anticipate miraculous accelerations
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest results

And some "paradigm shifts" were necessary to support the new methodology.
1. Make intercessory prayer the highest priority
2. Make disciples who make disciples
3. Invest time in the right person
4. Don't tell people what to believe and do
5. Never settle for revealing just one dimension of Jesus' life
6. Never substitute knowledge about God for an obedience-based relationship with God
7. Understand that Jesus does impossible things through the most ordinary people

And, here is the methodology for disciple making:
1. Pray abundantly
2. Gain access to the community through service and prayer
3. Wait for the Lord to lead you to the person of peace
4. Start a Discovery Bible Study with the person of peace and the members of his network
5. Coach the leaders who emerge in the group
6. Help them to focus on engaging other families and networks, not individuals
7. Coach and mentor leaders as they baptize new believers and organize them into a simple church
8. Encourage leaders to repeat the process among another family or community
6. Develop leaders

The Discovery Bible Study in point number four is described in detail. The difference between it and some other outlines for inductive bible studies is that it has questions on obedience. "What is there in this passage that I am planning on obeying?"

Why are Muslims attracted to Christianity? Because of the transformation that takes place in their lives. Here are the most common changes seen among Muslim individuals and communities who accept Christ.
1. Healed families
2. A spirit of freedom
3. A spirit of love
4. Diminished violence
5. Less addition
6. Redemption and hope
7. Evidences of divine favor
8. Grace in persecution
9. Freedom from demonic oppression
10.The power of individual prayer.

Each of these biblical principles and methodology points is illustrated with a story from the Muslim mission field in Africa, Asia or the Middle East.

The author says, "This way of making disciples results in:
1. rooting the gospel in any context,
2. developing disciples who are obedient to Jesus, and
3. creating disciples who make disciples, leaders who reproduce leaders, and churches that plant churches."

These lists of principles do not hint at the power of this book, which comes from the many stories of Muslims coming to Jesus. This book is an inspiring read even if you are not interested in learning how to evangelize.

If this were just a book about great successes in Muslim evangelization, it would be worth reading. But it is more than that. The principles described in this book for evangelizing Muslims in Africa should work in evangelizing secular Americans as well. I plan to take this book into a pastors' discussion group and we are going to look for ways to adapt this book for use in our churches and our communities.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read of what God is doing among Muslims February 20, 2012
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Jerry Trousdale shares some terrific stories of how God is working to bring Muslims into His Kingdom. For those who believe God is not working among Muslims, this may come as a shock. For those who believe that God loves all people from all ethnic groups, this book is a great encouragement. God is using the same methods that Jesus introduced to His first followers in the 1st Century to reach people many would consider unreachable in he 21st Century. This is not a book about what Jerry or his ministry partners are doing. It is a book about God using ordinary people working in partnership with Him to take the Kingdom of God to some really difficult places. Although the stories in this book take place in sub-Saharan Africa, the concepts are universal. God can use His people to spread His Word and His glory anywhere. What happens when God's people obey God is amazing - the church goes viral and lives, tribes, and nations are transformed. If you are interested in seeing what God can do through His people and their obedience, this is a must read. I was privileged to read the book prior to publication. Since then I have bought 75 copies to give to others!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The tip of the iceberg of what God is doing! April 18, 2012
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Miraculous Movements reveals that God has set many Muslims on fire, they have been set on fire with the love of Jesus!

What an amazing book! The stories sound like they came from the Book of Acts!

As a former missionary to Muslims in Southeast Asia I have traveled in some of the countries where this is happening and I can testify to the truth of these kinds of reports.

If you want to read one book that will change your perspective of the entire world, including today's news, this is it! My only criticism is that it needs to be longer. It left me wanting to hear more of what God is doing in the Muslim world!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
The book seemed to jump around a lot, and it had some very similar stories to a previous book I read. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Laura A. Mitchell
4.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking Testimonies
I would recommend this book for anyone who is working among the Muslim community or those who have the burden for them. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Willie Tan
2.0 out of 5 stars I was expecting more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring accounts of everyday people
Inspiring stories anyone can apply to reach out to thos who does not have a relationship with Jesus. A definite must read.
Published 1 month ago by Stephan Fourie
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book very encouraging!
A wonderful book about a wonderful approach to spreading the gospel to people who have no knowledge of the Word of God. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ronald
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend this book!
I live & serve in a non-Muslim area of the 1040 Window & I love DBSs. While there are many legitimate ways to relate & minister to those around us, I have found DBS to be a great... Read more
Published 2 months ago by SSChina
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
A Miracle Book Indeed! How to explain & discuss Christ with Muslims! Prayer is preparation the key! A must read!
Published 2 months ago by Nelson A. Gary
4.0 out of 5 stars Encouraging Anecdotes about Revival in Africa
This book is not an academic work, nor is it a how-to manual on Christian missionary work among Muslims. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jason D. Wood
5.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful Paradigm Shift for allbChristvFollowers
I had heard scattered reports from around the world about the miraculous ways God was intervening in the lives of many Muslims. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dr. Gary R. Sweeten
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What an incredible and encouraging book this is. So often Christians look at Muslims as a completely unreachable people group and immediately give up any hope of God's Kingdom... Read more
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