The Call for Muslim Evangelism

Why does it seem so difficult for Christian parents to raise children who love God the way they do and want to serve Him?

I’ve wondered about this a lot especially since I started working with Muslims around the world. It blows my mind when a fifteen year old girl in Atlanta, Georgia, has no problem with wearing a head covering in public and loves to talk about how she looks forward to a month of fasting during Ramadan. While working in the same Muslim community, I met some teenagers who had to excuse themselves from our conversation to perform their evening prayers. Their religion requires a lot from them, but it doesn’t seem to keep them from wanting to be a Muslim for the rest of their life.

One day, I mentioned this to my good friend, Austin Gardner, and what he had to say seemed to clear this all up for me. His response was that Satan doesn’t have to fight Muslim children and get them to reject their parents religion. In fact, he wins by getting them to stay Muslim. Christians, on the other hand, have the truth and that is what Satan hates and wants to keep people from.

Wow! That’s rough stuff! Though it may be hard to accept, the Bible definitely supports the argument.

In other words, Muslims don’t face the same spiritual struggle that we who are born again believers face. Their rebellion against God is expressed not by rejecting, but rather, following the teachings of Islam and rejecting the His Word. We have to recognize that we are in the middle of a spiritual battle, and things are not always what they seem.

The broad path is never the right path. We shouldn’t judge truth by what the majority of people think or do. In fact if most of the world is doing it, it’s probably the wrong way.

Just remember the next time you wonder why there is so much resistance in the Christian life and why do other false religions seem to prosper, that the lost world is bound by the miserable chains of their religion and they need what we have. Our enemy is not Islam or Atheism, it is Satan and his army fighting to keep the world rebellious through obedience to their religion.