I’ve study stacks of books-and created several-about Islam, Muslims and also the Middle East. But I’ve in no way encountered something that compares with Georges Houssney’s new book, Engaging Islam.
In its 208 pages, you will see Muslims the way you’ve in no way observed them before, via the eyes of Christ in Houssney.
Georges Houssney was born and elevated in Lebanon, in Orthodox, Maronite and Muslim neighborhoods. So he’s an insider. He has 40 several years of encounter in evangelism, discipleship and church planting. So he’s trained. But lots of others can say the identical.
It is his head and heart that set him apart, how he perceives Muslims and enjoys them.
Houssney catches us all in the headlights, revealing that we’re all hung up by anxiety, with pictures the blazing Twin Towers and cold-blooded beheadings; by fury more than Islamic aggression against the West; or by fascination by Islam’s complexity and “otherness.” Or possibly we’re so fatigued by their relentless shouting and complaining that we just need to overlook them altogether.
This book will release us from whatever keeps us at arm’s length from our Muslim neighbors and release us to become who God has known as us to be and also to complete the mission he has entrusted to us.
Among you and me, without the insights of Engaging Islam, I do not see how the Church can probably fulfill the Good Commission due to the fact, unless of course we alter our considering and approach, unless of course we find out to engage in enjoy, without having rage or accommodation, almost a quarter of the earth’s population will by no means hear the Gospel from the Kingdom of God.
Massive paradigm shifts in missiology are taking location today-from the job missionary model to brief expression missions, from sending Westerners to supporting indigenous believers. As well as a vital component in all this shifting need to be how we relate to Muslims. I will bet you a heaping plate of qawwrama (spiced lamb to die for) that Engaging Islam will quickly become the primer for the Church. And if it does not, shame on us.