Posts Tagged ‘demographics’

Last year I made a post entitled Video: Muslim Demographics that made claims about population growth among Muslims throughout the world.  My intention was to draw attention to Muslim issues as means of stirring up love and action towards Muslims that result in more preaching of the gospel of peace to them.

Apparently, not all of what was reported in the video is accurate.  Here is a report that seeks to set the record straight.  I, of course, am not entirely sure what the truth is. But in the interest of fidelity to the truth and its proper use, I offer this follow up in hopes of making sure that we think rightly about those we are commissioned to make disciples of.

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This is an interesting and informative video that I wanted to make available as a way to stir up creative thinking about how we can reach out to Muslims.  Obedience to and fulfillment of the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus to disciple the nations means learning to minister to the Muslims in our communities and around the world.

I have been reading and thinking about what God has been doing throughout the world in the recent decades, and about urban missions.

One book I can recommend is Muslims and Christians at the Table: Promoting Biblical Understanding Among North American Muslims.  I found it a useful resource for a Muslim history, doctrine, and worldview – And a biblical response.  It also provides very helpful and practical ways to reach out to Muslims.

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Another very helpful book is The Next Christendom, by Philip Jenkins. Jenkins provides convincing evidence that the center of Christian influence in the world is shifting from the West and North to the East and South.  The implications of this and other demographic trends are profoundly important for the Great Commission.

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