When I was taking world religions, it was a stressful time in my life, with a full course load, and my father dying in a hospital, and me visiting him for 4 hours a day.
One our assignments was to make friends with people from a different religion. I lived in a totally WASP area, and I did not have the time to find someone from another faith in Real Life. So I went into a Muslim forum. I told them I was a Seminary student, and I was there to learn about Islam and make friends.
I never had the opportunity to witness, but I sure had a lot of Muslim evangelism done to me. From testimonies of women to posts comparing the Bible to the Qur'an and how the Bible was wrong. I also spent a lot of time just reading the posts, and finding out what they believed, and what they discussed/argued about.
My goal was to eventually make friends and be a witness. But between school, my father dying and me being in charge of the memorial I never got back there. That was sad. I bought a bunch of books about Islam, and how to witness to Muslims. I learned a lot, besides what was in our text books. A visit to the mosque was also fascinating. The women had to wear a hijab, and I didn't do mine quite right. But the Muslim women were not upset in the least.
There was one recent convert who was the son of the former moderator of the United Church of Canada, formerly the largest Protestant denomination in Canada, and very apostate. A few of the men in our class started talking to him about Jesus and refuting the claims of Islam. I don't really know what happened, but suddenly this recent convert ran out of the front of the mosque in tears. I know these men loved God and were called as preachers, teachers and evangelists, but they would never intentionally hurt someone.
The next class, we had to debrief about what we saw and learned. The professor said that the people that stayed and talked to us were the "missions committee" of the mosque. There were some Arabic people, but mostly westerners that had converted. Anyway, Sparkman, I hope you learn lots at this conference, and report back to us what you learned.
One our assignments was to make friends with people from a different religion. I lived in a totally WASP area, and I did not have the time to find someone from another faith in Real Life. So I went into a Muslim forum. I told them I was a Seminary student, and I was there to learn about Islam and make friends.
I never had the opportunity to witness, but I sure had a lot of Muslim evangelism done to me. From testimonies of women to posts comparing the Bible to the Qur'an and how the Bible was wrong. I also spent a lot of time just reading the posts, and finding out what they believed, and what they discussed/argued about.
My goal was to eventually make friends and be a witness. But between school, my father dying and me being in charge of the memorial I never got back there. That was sad. I bought a bunch of books about Islam, and how to witness to Muslims. I learned a lot, besides what was in our text books. A visit to the mosque was also fascinating. The women had to wear a hijab, and I didn't do mine quite right. But the Muslim women were not upset in the least.
There was one recent convert who was the son of the former moderator of the United Church of Canada, formerly the largest Protestant denomination in Canada, and very apostate. A few of the men in our class started talking to him about Jesus and refuting the claims of Islam. I don't really know what happened, but suddenly this recent convert ran out of the front of the mosque in tears. I know these men loved God and were called as preachers, teachers and evangelists, but they would never intentionally hurt someone.
The next class, we had to debrief about what we saw and learned. The professor said that the people that stayed and talked to us were the "missions committee" of the mosque. There were some Arabic people, but mostly westerners that had converted. Anyway, Sparkman, I hope you learn lots at this conference, and report back to us what you learned.
