Monday, March 3, 2008
Perspectives, 655 Assignment
Please read and respond to the article, "Going too Far," by Phil Parshall, beginning on page 655 in your Perspectives on the World Christian Movement book. You will be required to respond to at least one other student's comments to successfully complete this assignment. Please ensure that you put your name in parenthesis if you post anonymously.
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This article is a bit complex. Does a Christian have to become a Muslim to win a Muslim? I don’t believe so. This is a hard thing to fully understand. I cannot become a Ukrainian, but I need to learn their culture so as not to offend them and understand them. It would be more offensive to the Ukrainians for me to try to become one of them than to be the Christian American. Like the story of the man that went into the mosque offended the Muslims. I believe that we need to know and understand their culture to be able to relate to them the best way we know how.
I’m not sure if living the Muslim life without entering the mosque is right or not. The Messianic Jews don’t seem to worry me as much as the Messianic Muslims. I can’t quite explain this except for the fact that Muslim culture is steeped in the Islamic religion. I honestly don’t know what is best. I think people will have to make that decision when they are faced with that situation. (Meisha Deane)
It is admirable that they have the desire to witness to the Islamic people, and win them. I like the fact they are so knowledgeable of the Islamic faith. I think Christians should know more about them. (I would not have you to be ignorant brothers…) I personally would not do anything like that. I would like to see more people have at least a working knowledge of their faith, then if necessarily know enough about where to go if they need more assistance. We need to understand their culture not become part of their culture in order to talk with them.
I think this is going too far like the title asks. For several reasons, one, I would not like an Islamic coming into any Christian church with the intent to cause dissention, (become an insider, and promote Islam and confuse Christians). The thing is going out with the intent to cause dissention, not go out with the intent to intelligently sit down and win them using logic and explain the steps giving them the chance to decide of their own free will. Not to mention the one member of their group knowingly violated the agreed upon rules, whether he liked it or not those were the agreed upon rules.
I know Jesus witnessed to large crowds before but for me, I think that something like that is best done one on one. If I know there may be a lot of tension or a lot of rejection (crowd type rioting), or there other person would be under psychological pressure to be led either way in favor or against the gospel I would rather see the other person dealt with one on one. This way they are free to make an informed intelligent decision of their own free will.
Mark A.
Meisha
I agree I am not sure that this is the right way to go about it. It is certainly a complicated issue.
The entering the mosque is wrong I think. Even if we disagree with their faith which we do we still need to respect their right to choose, even if different from ours. We will continue to witness to them; however, we need to realize they are free to choose differently from us.
I’m just not sure about the rest of the story. I guess I understand why, I just don’t know.
Mark
I recently have had a devotion concerning the separation of light and darkness. Darkness is the absence of light and light is the absence of darkness. Christ tells us to be the light of the world (Matthew 5:14). However, I read 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, where Paul states, “I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.” The first thing I did after I read this article was search the Scriptures. What does the Word of God teach us concerning this situation? In my opinion, you have to be in the world but not of the world, and this concept of evangelism goes totally against that view. Also, don’t you have denounce Christ as the Savior before your Muslim faith can be acknowledged? (Trey Hyman)
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