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How To Show A Muslim The Grace Of Jesus Christ

How to Show a Muslim the Grace of Jesus Christ

Joe Wilson

Philosophy 104
Dr. Matthews
31 May 2007

Preface
As believers in Jesus Christ the Good News of the Gospel of Christ is something we must share with the world around us .   Our spheres of influence are the “mission field” where we as Christians are called to share this Good News.   To a true believer, the gift of salvation is the most wonderful gift they will ever receive.   Having spent a significant amount of the last five years in the Middle East and Central Asia, I know I have missed some opportunities to share the Gospel with unbelievers because I was not prepared with the right tools.   I have lived among Muslims with the knowledge of Christ as my Savior, and was both unprepared to share and ordered by my military commanders not to share.   Now having studied more details about the belief system of the Muslim, I present the following paper as a reference tool to aid others in presenting a clear, concise, Biblical and orderly Christian Gospel to the Muslim.

How to Show a Muslim the Grace of Jesus Christ
In America today an estimated 1.5 million people consider themselves Muslim-Americans (Pew Research Center).   According to the U.S. Census Bureau there are nearly 302 million Americans (U.S. Census Bureau).   Based on these numbers and this would constitute approximately ten percent of the Muslim population in the world.   If we as Christians can reach this “multitude” imagine the impact that could have of the rest of the Muslim world at large.
In order to reach the Muslim with the Gospel we must first have a firm grasp on how they believe.   The Muslim believer has a greater understanding of what faith is than most people in America who call themselves Christians.   The Muslim does not see the necessity to separate church and state as our society in America does today, therefore they see the practice of their faith as “symbiotic” with the rest of their daily lives.
The Muslim believes five...