Exploring Islam and Christianity

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Exploring Islam and Christianity
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How Is The Lords House?
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How Is The Lords House?

• Haggai 12-4, "Thus speaks the LORD of hosts,
  saying 'This people says, "The time has not
  come, the time that the LORD's house should be
  built."'" Then the word of the LORD came by
  Haggai the prophet, saying, "Is it time for you
  yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and
  this temple to lie in ruins?"

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The Lords House is His Church

• Eph 219-20, Now, therefore, you are no longer
  strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
  with the saints and members of the household of
  God, 20 having been built on the foundation of
  the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
  being the chief cornerstone
• 1 Tim 315, but if I am delayed, I write so that
  you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in
  the house of God, which is the church of the
  living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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The Lords House is His Church

• 1 Peter 24-5, Coming to Him as to a living
  stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God
  and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are
  being built up a spiritual house, a holy
  priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
  acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Acts 247, And the Lord added to the church
  daily those who were being saved.

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Mission Field ISLAM

• Islam means Submission
• Muslim means one who submits
• 32 nations around the globe with gt80 Muslim
  population
• Islam 2nd largest world religion
• Islam is fastest growing religion
• 1 Billion Muslims in the world
• Approx. 5 Million Muslims in U.S.A.

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Our Course of Study
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Our Course of Study
These are the verses of the immaculate Book. We
have sent it down as a clear discourse that you
may understand. Through the revelation of this
Quran We narrate the best of histories of which
you were unaware before. Surah 121-3
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Our Course of Study
Eph 33-4, how that by revelation He made known
to me the mystery (as I have briefly written
already, by which, when you read, you may
understand my knowledge in the mystery of
Christ) Eph 517, Therefore do not be unwise,
but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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How Is The Lords House?
Have Christians Become
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Is There A Standard?
Christendom
N.T.
Islam

• Surah 2119-121

Absolutes
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Surah 2119-121
And We have sent you with the truth to give glad
tidings and to warn. You will not be questioned
about those who are inmates of Hell. The Jews and
Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their way. Say Gods guidance alone
is true guidance for if you give in to their
wishes after having received the (Book of)
knowledge from God, then none will you have as
friend or helper to save you. Those to whom We
have sent down the Book, and who read it as it
should be read, believe in it truly but those
who deny it will be losers
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Is There A Standard?
Christendom
N.T.
Islam

• Surah 2119-121

• John 832 146

Absolutes
Revisions

• Surah 586 572

Hell
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Surah 586
But those who disbelieve and deny Our revelations
are residents of Hell.
Surah 572
Whosoever associates a compeer with God, will
have Paradise denied to Him by God, and his abode
shall be Hell and the sinners will have none to
help them.
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Is There A Standard?
Christendom
N.T.
Islam

• Surah 2119-121

• John 832 146

Absolutes
Revisions

• Matt. 1028 Mk. 942-48

• Surah 586 572

Hell
Revisions
Commitment

• Surah 2120

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Surah 2120
The Jews and Christians will never be pleased
with you until you follow their way. Say Gods
guidance alone is true guidance for if you give
in to their wishes after having received the
(Book of) knowledge from God, then none will you
have as friend or helper to save you.
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Is There A Standard?
Christendom
N.T.
Islam

• Surah 2119-121

• John 832 146

Absolutes
Revisions

• Matt. 1028 Mk. 942-48

• Surah 586 572

Hell
Revisions

• Luke 961-62 1426-28

Commitment

• Surah 2119-121

Very Loose

• Surah 2216 474

Sacrifice
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Surah 2216
Enjoined on you is fighting, and this you abhor.
You may dislike a thing yet it may be good for
you or a thing may haply please you but may be
bad for you. Only God has knowledge and you do
not know.
Surah 474
So, when you clash with the unbelievers, smite
their necks until you overpower them, then hold
them in bondage. Then either free them graciously
or after taking a ransom, until war shall have
come to end
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Is There A Standard?
Christendom
N.T.
Islam

• Surah 2119-121

• John 832 146

Absolutes
Revisions

• Matt. 1028 Mk. 942-48

• Surah 586 572

Hell
Revisions

• Luke 961-62 1426-28

Commitment

• Surah 2119-121

Very Loose
Standing for What?

• Heb. 1136-40
• 1Pet. 416-19

• Surah 2216 474

Sacrifice
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The Case ofJohn Walker Lindh

• U.S. citizen Captured in 2001 in Afghanistan
• Raised in Marin County, CA
• Father is Catholic, Mother is Buddhist Kids
  should make their own choice on religion
• U.S. to Yemen to Taliban to Jail

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How Is The Lords House?
Have Christians Become
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All are Christian (In Muslim Eyes), But Do
All Believe and Practice Alike?
Billy Graham
Beyonce
Mother Teresa
Andrew Roberts
Jerry Falwell
Benny Hinn
Pope Benedict XVI
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All are Muslim (In Christian Eyes), But Do
All Believe and Practice Alike?
Yusuf Islam/ Cat Stevens
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah
Salman Rushdie
Osama Bin Laden
Ayatollah Khomeini
Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
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Christ - not the Catholic Church

• Surah 5116, And when God will ask O Jesus,
  son of Mary, did you say to mankind Worship me
  and my mother as two deities apart from God?
  (Jesus) will answer Halleluja. Could I say what
  I knew I had no right (to say)? Had I said it You
  would surely have known, for You know what is in
  my heart though I know not what you have

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Christ - not the Catholic Church

• Surah 931, They consider their rabbis and monks
  and the Christ, son of Mary, to be gods apart
  from God, even though they had been enjoined to
  worship only one God, for there is no God but He.
  Too holy is He for what they ascribe to Him!

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Christ - not the Catholic Church

• Veneration of Mary and Saints
• The Crusades (vs. John 1836 Matt. 2651-52)
• Im not a Catholic

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Christ - not Denominationalism

• Bible is Untrustworthy
• Surah 33, He has verily revealed to you this
  Book, in truth and confirmation of the Books
  revealed before, as indeed He had revealed the
  Torah and Gospel

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Christ - not Denominationalism

• Bible is Untrustworthy
• Surah 2252-53, We have sent no messenger or
  apostle before you with whose recitations Satan
  did not tamper. Yet God abrogates what Satan
  interpolates then He confirms His revelations,
  for God is all-knowing and all-wise. This is in
  order to make the interpolations of Satan a test
  for thos whose hearts are diseased and hardened
  surely the sinners have gone far in dissent.

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Christ - not Denominationalism

• Bible is Untrustworthy
• Surah 378, Among them is a section which
  distorts in reading the Scripture in a way that
  though it sounds like the Scripture, in fact it
  is not yet they say it is from God, when they
  know it is not and they lie about God, and
  knowingly.

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The Lords House

• Jesus is the ONLY head of the church (Eph.
  122-23)
• The New Testament is the ONLY doctrine (2 John
  9)
• There is ONLY one body (Eph. 44)
• The church of Christ is NOT a Denomination

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Islam in the U.S.A.

• Approx. 5 million Muslims in U.S. Islam 2nd
  largest World Religion
• Average 1 new mosque opens each week in U.S.
• 165 Islamic schools, 426 Islamic associations
  90 Islamic publications in U.S.
• There are more Muslims than Methodists in U.S.
• Likely to be More Muslims than Jews and
  Protestants combined by mid-century

Islamic Center of America Detroit, Michigan
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Surah 2143
We have made you a temperate people that you act
as witness over man, and the Prophet as witness
over you.
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Dawah Invitation

• Dawah means the active business of propagating
  Islam to make conversions
• Dawah involves the effort to bring those whove
  fallen away from Islam back
• Dawah means the responsibility to simply live
  quiet lives of Muslim piety and charity set
  example

- Jane I. Smith, professor Islamic Studies,
Hartford Seminary
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Muslims target the Academic World

• Islam has taken advantage of American openness
  and has made great progress in Dawah in our
  schools that are closed to Christianity. The
  educational institutions of the West will be a
  major battleground for Islam in the future
  William Wagner
• Acts 2625

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Muslims target Prisons

• It is estimated that more than 300,000 prisoners
  are converts to Islam, and that the rate of
  conversion may be more than 30,000 each year
  William Wagner
• Hebrews 133

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Muslims target Minorities

• Islam is focusing on people groups in America
  and the West and is creating strategies to meet
  the needs of these target peoples. As of now the
  numbers are not large, but as Christians have
  learned, people who feel displaced or alienated
  are more open to conversion than those who have
  deep roots. The minorities in America fit into
  this category William Wagner
• Colossians 311 James 21-4, 8-9

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How Is The Lords House?
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How Is The Lords House?
Let Christians

• Be Loud and Clear not Quiet (2 Tim. 17 42)
• Be Distinct and Consistent not Unidentifiable
  (Matt. 514-15 Phil. 215)
• Be Bold and Zealous not Indifferent (Rev.
  314-19)
• Be Revived and Active not Tired (Gal. 69-10
  1 Cor. 1558)