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Reaching Muslims For Christ

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As a person who has a "special" heart toward those of the Muslim faith, I found this book to be an excellent resource. Rather than spending a lot of time explaining the basics of Islam, the book dives right into the more in-depth issues such as understanding the Muslim worldview and how terminology/thoughts/concepts have totally different meanings to Christians and Muslims.

This book is best understood by someone has already spent some time in dialoguing with Muslims. It helps the Christian to understand the problems in communication between us both. Unlike many other books, at no time do the authors go into a "bashing" session of Islam, but present it as fairly and accurately as possible. They DO NOT hide the fact that they do not believe Islam to be "the true religion", but they do not disparage Muslims as a whole or their prophet.

Questions for reflection & meditation are at the end of each chapter which are very useful in preparation for ministry to Muslims and an extensive list of sources is given in the book, as well, for further study.

Overall well-written and very informative.

I have only used this book in research. I hope to read this book before I leave for the Middle East. What appears to make the book great is that it's author has been active in the field for a while. I liked the sample Bible study in back. READ IT! Or use as a resource.

This book is very good at detailing some of the misconceptions Muslims have about the Christian faith, and then showing the fallacies in their concepts. One of the major concepts that Muslims have is that many of them think that the Trinity, when used by Christians, refers to the father Joseph, the mother Mary, and the child Jesus. That is one of the reasons they consider the Christian faith to be heretical. They do not understand that when orthodox Christians talk about the Trinity, Mary and Joseph aren't even in the picture, and that Mary was only a vehicle that God used to become incarnate, the second person of the one God clothed in human form. There are many other misconceptions also, but you need to read the book.
This book does try to refute some of these misconceptions, and it is very helpful in educating others as to the common misplaced notions about the Christian faith by Muslims. However, as a witnessing tool, another book is much better, "Reasoning from the Scriptures with Muslims" by Ron Rhodes, where there are some actual witnessing questions a person can ask, that cuts "right to the quick" of the matter, instead of getting bogged down.
To be fair, this book was very helpful in educating me as to some of the misconceptions of Muslims, and I would recommend it more as an educational tool for private reading by non-Muslims (and Muslims, too, although it is written for a Christian audience). There are questions in the appendix of the book for study, but the questions are meant more for study for Christians for educating them about the differences between Islam and Christianity, unlike "Reasoning". Buy this book as for your own education on Muslims, as I did.
Another book that I would recommend for private Christian study is "Answering Islam", if you want a deep, thorough theological read.

This book is very informative and helpful in understanding more about what Muslims believe and how we can try to relate to our Muslim brothers and sisters. I highly recommend this book.

William Saal writes from years of experience as U.S. Director of the very excellent Arab World Ministries (AWM), and it shows in both its tone (respectful, compassionate) and its insights. Besides the information chapters, there's the how-to section on communicating with Muslims, which evaluates 3 approaches: knock it down, build upon it, or walk around it. Misunderstandings are analyzed, such as Islamic and Christian use of the same words but with different meanings. Though primarily an evangelistic resource for Christians (like myself) who love Muslims, this book should also be helpful to the nonChristian interested in Islam. One thing that really struck me, considering the subject matter, was this book's kindness, the lack of any hint of us-versus-them, much less ridicule or indignation. (For evangelical Christians hesitant to buy a book from an unfamiliar author, note the publisher is Moody, "The Name You Can Trust," and that AWM has been around for 125 years!)

I think a more accurate title may be "Muslims reaching Christians".

Haven't we been this direction before? After 1400 years of the Islamic doctrine, we should all be a little more informed that Christ (Messiah) is ALREADY known and revered by Muslims thru-out the world. In fact, Jesus has been around for Islam long before the evangelical right discovered him.

The author does little to enhance Christian intellect. May he also be reminded that Jesus had "other sheep" which "are not of (their) the fold".

Recently two Australian Christian missionaries travelled to the middle east,in the hope of converting as many Muslims as possible to the Christian faith,they were both arrested,thrown in jail and to the best of my knowledge are sitting in death row right now.What an astonishing display of human stupidity,but one shouldnt be surprised,this type of behaviour is inevitable in the face of close minded religious dogma,it is no different than Christian preachers handling venomous snakes to demonstrate their unquestioning faith in God,a large number of these morons end up being bitten and die as a result.
It truly sickens me ,particularly with the recent tragedies of September 11 still fresh in everyones memory,that world leaders have all denounced these events in the name of their very cause,Religion.Will people ever learn?Will humanity ever wake up and realise that both of these dispicable religions have spilled oceans of blood,all based on the same "morally superior"mindset?This "God is on our side" mentality,espoused by George W.Bush following Sept 11 does nothing more than perpetuate the problem ,and provide further justification for war.A seemingly endless cycle repeated in the name of religion.You can be sure that if any of the suicide pilots had survived they would have had Mosques packed to the rafters describing how they had been attempting to "reach the world trade centre for Allah",while people like William J.Sall waste their energies and time writing books like "Reaching Muslims for Christ",or "How to talk to Muslims".
This book does nothing more than pile more wood on the fire,and if it can teach us anything,then surley it should be the total lack of religious toloernce that BOTH of these monotheistic cults continue to display,and the more people that realise this,the more chance we can live together peacefully without wanting to slaughter each other,based on "Divine inspiration"from the bible or koran.