Status Updates From A Wind in the House of Islam

“In movements to Christ, it is not the individuals, the single converts, who represent the nature of a true movement. It is the communities, beginning with the families that produce the swelling ranks of true movements of Muslims to Christ.” (Pg. 173).

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“With the advent of the Internet and easy reproduction of video, audio, print media, this Persian-language barrier is breaking down. One church member in Iran admitted to distributing thousands of copies of the JESUS Film in Persian. Revealing the hunger, or at least curiosity, for the gospel, he also reported, “only two persons refused to take a copy.” (Pg. 136-137)

“Nadia’s is one of thousands; in what is certainly the greatest turning of Muslims to Christ in Iran’s history.” “Nadia’s story are ten clues to the ways God is introducing Iranian Muslims; to salvation: 1)Drawn To Jesus 2)Iranian Islam 3)Christian Witness 4)Media Ministries 5)Hunger For Freedom 6)Social Turmoil 7)Family Witness 8) New Testaments 9)Jesus Visitations, & 10)House Churches.” (Pg. 123)

“Though Christians in the West typically associate the name Allah with Islam, it was, in fact, Christian in origin. Arab Muslims borrowed the name from Arab Christians who had been praying to Allah for centuries Muhammed was born. Today, millions of Arab, Hausa, Malay, and Bengali Christians continue to pray to God by the name “Allah.” (Pg. 108)

“A 2011 survey of 204 Muslim-background believers; revealed that, before coming to Christ, most of these believers came from a strong Muslim background, & held a very negative view of Christianity. When asked what God had used to change their views of Jesus, 164 of the 204 mentioned the salvation they had found in Jesus Christ. Most of them cited specific passages; Romans 8:1; Acts 4:12; and John 14:6.” (Pg. 107)

In Chapter 5 | The East Africa Room

“One of the largest predominately Muslim people groups has seen tens of thousands of Muslims turn to faith in Christ. These Christ-following imams and seikhs are now guiding entire communities to follow Isa-Al-Masih in baptism.” (Pg. 71)

“Ahmed’s Islamic teachers railed against him, ‘How can you protect Islam if you cannot kill one man?’ ‘I’m sorry,’ Ahmed said, ‘Next time I will do better.” “Ahmed continued, ‘Let’s find all of the Jews who are behind what is happening, and kill them all.’ They said, ‘First let us train you some more and then we will send back to; kill your brother and the others.’ (Pg. 185)

“By 1873, Sadrach had already lead more than 2,500 Javanese Muslims to faith, more than had been reached in the entire 268-year history of the Indische Kirk (Indonesian Church) & the hundreds of Dutch missionaries who had labored with them. Sadrach’s movement was not only the first Muslim movement to Christ in the Info-Malaysia Room, it was the first voluntary movement of Muslims to Christ in history.” (Pg. 45)

“In only the first 12 years of the 21st century, an additional 69 movements to Christ of at least 1,000 baptized Muslim-background believers or 100 new worshipping fellowships have appeared. They are taking place throughout the House of Islam; in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Persian world, in the Arab World, in Turkestan, in South Asia, and in Southeast Asia.” (Pg. 18)

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