Some friends of mine started a Bible college here to stop the bright and talented young believers from leaving to go to the US for Bible college never to return. I have been very supportive of this effort since I can either help do it right or complain about how someone else has done it wrong. That being said this has been a challenging week. I am teaching 40 hours of missiology this week to a class of 12. I will go up north and teach it again next week. This eight hours of teaching a day for five days is brutal but as I sit and drink a cup of coffee and prepare to start the next session I thought I would share with whoever is left reading this occasional blog a great chart given to me by my good friend Ted Sandyman.
Christian approaches to Muslims
If we see Muslims as …
Enemies
Our approach will be …
Attack!/Defend!
Our heart attitude will be ..
hate
If we see Muslims as …
Foreigners
Our approach will be …
Separate Coexistence
Our heart attitude will be ..
Indifference
If we see Muslims as …
Poor, uncivilized, uncultured
Our approach will be …
Invite them to be like us (join us)
Our heart attitude will be ..
Pharisaic/condescending
If we see Muslims as …
Rivals
Our approach will be …
Polemic debate
Our heart attitude will be ..
proud
If we see Muslims as …
Human beings
Our approach will be …
Respectful dialogue
Our heart attitude will be ..
listen and learn
If we see Muslims as …
Unresponsive
Our approach will be …
resigned to do nothing
Our heart attitude will be ..
hopeless
If we see Muslims as …
Lost people Jesus died for
Our approach will be …
Salt/light (demonstrate love)
Preach the Gospel (speak truth)
Pray for their needs (show power)
Become all things to all people (Pauline)
Our heart attitude will be ..
Love
I like Ted's chart. Why not apply it to the people you meet today?
4 comments:
There are still people reading your blog believe it or not, and they haven't taught me that chart in seminary yet! By the way, have you talked to your wife recently about a job?? Email me please!
I teach Old and New Testament Survey here at our local community college. I've placed my lecture notes for those courses online. Feel free to use the materials in your courses there.
www.johnalex.org/
2 conditions:
1. I don't sell my stuff, so no one else can, either.
2. Please contact me if you find errors so I can correct them.
May God bless your work there.
JA
Hey Strider it's been quite a while since I last posted but all I can say to this one is WOW!!!! We ALL truly need to TRY to do this!! It is certainly what God wants us to do!!! Thanks so much for adding it to your blog. I'm off for now but you and yours are never far from our hearts!!! Take Care, Angie!
Thanks guys, I am back from teaching now and it went really well. I will get a new post up this week I hope. In the meantime, thanks John for your offer of materials. We have a guy here with a PHD in OT and he teaches that- I will forward your link to him.
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