Jesus Christ Presented as
the Son of Allah – A “New” Way of Doing Missions?
January 23, 2014 ,
by Paul Proctor. Used with
permission.
I have addressed,
on numerous occasions, the Church’s ongoing efforts to reinvent Christianity
into a global religion of Results & Relationships by using the powers of
pragmatism and consensus to artificially grow itself into something more widely
accepted by the world instead of faithfully proclaiming the Word of God “in
season and out” as we are commanded to do in 2nd Timothy 4:2. The leaders of
the new spirituality and its church growth movement have always had a hard time
avoiding the “wide gate” and “broad way” [Mt.7:13-14] choosing clever methods
of “evangelism” that are not only incompatible with God’s Word, but also prove
them unwilling to trust Him with the increase – ever looking for something more
clever, spectacular and impressive to glory in and boast about to a watching
world.
“…for men to search their own glory is not glory.” –
Proverbs 25:27b
“So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither
he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.” – 1st Corinthians 3:7
There’s no better
example of this than a story from The Baptist Standard where
Christians are encouraged by a “veteran missionary” to employ what’s called
“The Camel Method” to evangelize, where the Quran is used, instead of the
Bible, to share Christ with Muslims – a method that reportedly utilizes
“selected verses” and “doesn’t teach oo lecture, but asks questions.”
Isn’t this
exactly what dialectically trained facilitators have done for years in many
seeker-sensitive and Purpose Driven churches to draw and hold large and diverse
crowds of potential converts with a lot of non-offensive opinion sharing and
relationship building in order to find common ground and greater tolerance for
one another through compromise and group dynamics? That may be the agenda of
global socialists at the United Nations, but it’s not the Bible’s agenda for
Christians or the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I’m sure the UN would have no problem
with a program like this where sidelining biblical truths for a contrived unity
is celebrated and syncretism is the spirituality of choice.
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the
end thereof are the ways of death.” – Proverbs 14:12
According to the
report, missionary Kevin Greeson, who “has served 16 years with the Southern
Baptist International Mission Board,” is “working to start Christian movements
among Muslims in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal…” adding that “his goal focuses
less on individual conversions and more on starting spiritual movements that
will result in thousands of Muslims becoming followers of Christ.” Greeson: “Our generation can’t afford to
be satisfied or happy with winning one lost person to Christ. There are so many
lost people, we can’t be happy with that.”
“…I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” – Luke 15:10
Certainly most
Christians would like to see more than one person they witness to repent and
receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, but where in God’s Word are we
commanded to “take up thy Quran” and “go ye into all the world and start a
movement?” Sure it sounds lofty and high-minded in our Big Box culture where
consumers like to impress each other and get the most for the least; but isn’t
this more of an exercise in ecumenical egomania and spiritual sleight-of-hand
than humble obedience to Jesus’ call to “take up thy cross” and “go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every creature?”
It’s alarming
enough that the Bible is set aside with this method of “evangelism,” but it’s
outright heresy that Jesus Christ is presented as the son of Allah, since Allah
was widely recognized and worshipped as a pagan moon god even before there was
a Mohammed.
How then can the
truth set you free if it begins with a lie? [Jn.8:32]
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” –
Isaiah 55:8-9
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