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BWA Responds to A Common Word
Source: BWA release
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) has issued a formal response to “A Common Word Between Us and You,” a letter written by 138 Muslim leaders and scholars that appealed for Christians and Muslims to cooperate in engendering peace and religious freedom.
Upon receipt of the letter, which was dated October 13, 2007, and sent to 27 named world Christian leaders, including BWA President David Coffey, BWA leaders welcomed the letter and indicated that the BWA would make an official response after consultation with Baptists from around the world.
Coffey, in a personal response to the letter sent October 16, 2007, said, “I welcome the letter from the Muslim scholars and leaders and commend it as a groundbreaking initiative which could make a major contribution to a better understanding in Christian-Muslim relations, the cause of religious liberty and global peace.”
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DARE WE CONFRONT?!
(A CALL FOR A NEW PARADIGM IN MUSLIM EVANGELISM)
By: Jay Smith
It was not a day unlike any other at Speaker's Corner, in Hyde Park. I had been up speaking on my ladder concerning the prophet Muhammad for about fifteen minutes, when suddenly an irate Muslim, also named Muhammad, standing directly in front of my ladder, began to shake it while yelling profanities, until I was thrown off. I got back on and continued my talk, when Muhammad once again repeated his yelling, and grabbing the ladder threw me off once again. It was time for the police to intervene, which they did, enabling me to finish my speech to the crowd gathered.
Upon descending from my ladder I was approached by Muhammad, still seething with anger, yelling at me to please stop casting aspersions on his prophet. It was at this point that an Irish atheist, a fellow who often sided with the Muslims, came up to us and asked why we bothered to talk to each other since he had witnessed Muhammad's rather violent reaction to my speech a few minutes earlier.
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(Note: the following was initially written for the Biola University publication "Chimes," the news magazine for Biola at the time. It was written just a few months after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.)
"Consider Again Your Vocation: Islam
Where is the light?"
By Joshua Lingel
Since 9/11, Muslim Priests (called 'Imams') report upwards of 34,000 conversions to Islam in the U.S. one month ago - four times the normal amount. Since 1980, of the one million immigrants that enter this country each year, 14% are from the 60 Islamic Nations. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S. and the second largest surpassing Judaism (5.7 million) recently with estimates ranging from 6-8 million, or double the amount just 10 years ago. You see, we did not win a war in Afghanistan - only a battle.
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by Basil Grafas
August 2006
Contemporary mission is firmly committed to contextualizing the gospel for other cultures. One of the most trumpeted recent examples of a contextualization methodology is known as the “Insider Movement.” Insider Movements have been defined as “popular movements to Christ that bypass both formal and explicit expression of Christian religion."1 A key text used to support Insider methodology, regardless of which faith system is involved, is “Each one should remain in the condition in which he is called [1 Corinthians 7:20].” Insider Movements are not expressions of church planting. They remain outside of Christianity and within their original faith systems. The gospel is incarnated within the originating culture. Insider, or “Messianic,” Muslims therefore do not consider themselves as Christians and usually not as Muslim followers of Jesus. The phrasing itself implies a continuum from unbelief to Christ, not from unbelief to Christianity.
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