Posted on 06/20/2017 10:47:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Christianity is making a comeback in Europe – and it’s mostly thanks to Muslims, say experts in Islam and faith leaders.
A soaring number of Muslims, many of them refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are converting to Christianity, breathing new life into Europe’s once floundering Christian churches. The Muslims are flocking to various Christian denominations, experts said, including becoming Protestants, evangelical or Catholic.
As many parts of Europe are becoming more secular and houses of worship are seeing congregants leave in droves, it is Muslim converts who are reviving struggling Christian churches.
"European churches have struggled for decades to share the gospel with modern secular Europeans,” Matthew Kaemingk, a professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Seattle, told Fox News. “They have found Muslim immigrants to be much more open to the message of Christianity."
Kaemingk, who has done research focused on Christian responses to Muslim immigration in the Netherlands, and has written a book titled “Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear” that will be published this fall, said secular Europeans rarely sense a deep need for the type of healing and salvation the church offers.
“Europeans are wealthy, comfortable, healthy, and powerful,” Kaemingk said. “In short, they don't think they need God.”
But, he added, Muslim immigrants are quite the opposite – they are intensely spiritual. But they are leaving their own religion for a variety of reasons.
Some Muslim refugees settling in European counties may be converting on the assumption that their odds for obtaining political asylum will improve if they are Christian, according to the Guardian. Others may have had an earlier interest in converting but were unable to do so while they lived in the Middle East, where conversions are often prohibited and could make the family a target.
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RE: Wow talk about trojan horse.
You are quoting the Daily Beast?!!!
When the Daily Beast and Fox News and The Blaze all report the same thing, there has to be something to it.
Or are we now to ignore even the latter two?
Some are and some aren’t. It’s beautiful that some are converting, but the infiltrators are a danger to the church.
RE: Now you are quoting the sell out Glen Beck???
So, you don’t believe FOX NEWS, Daily Beast or The Blaze, or even the Voice of the Martyrs.... which ones are we to refer to then?
RE: It’s beautiful that some are converting, but the infiltrators are a danger to the church.
That cannot be avoided. Even Jesus Himself warns us about wolves in sheep’s clothing ( Matthew 7:15 ).
I’m not going to live my life as a TOTAL cynic just because I see so much evil and treachery in this world.
RE: Protestant I know...Catholic I know...
again I have to ask what’s an evangelical ???
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From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christianity, or Evangelical Protestantism is a worldwide, transdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ’s atonement.
Evangelicals believe in the centrality of the conversion or the “born again” experience in receiving salvation, in the authority of the Bible as God’s revelation to humanity, and in spreading the Christian message.
All of this is true. I think Graham was speaking to born-again Christians who weren’t sure what to do, e.g. whether they had to go to church.
Amir Tsarfati recently stressed going to church as opposed to just getting all your teaching and fellowship from the Internet.
Notice how Wikipedia says evangelicals must be born again. While this is true, it obscures the truth that ALL Christians are told they must be born again (John 3). They talk about born-again Christians as if we are some kind of mutation.
Quite Christian of you. Who are you to question a person’s decision to follow the teachings of Christ? What would you do? Toss them out of the churches?
Living your life as a bitter cynic is not a healthy choice.
Let’s see how many of them turn out to be like the ones who slaughtered the elderly French priest in front of his congregants.
+1
I am not a cynic. I just read the news and prophecy.
And I’m not judging anyone individually.
And of course you can’t toss them out. You can only hope what is phony or devious will be come real with exposure to Christians.
RE: Let’s see how many of them turn out to be like the ones who slaughtered the elderly French priest in front of his congregants.
Or we can see how many turn out to be like this ex-Muslim:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabeel_Qureshi_(author)
What like all three of them?
I hope the m*slims don’t try to kill the converts, as their religion commands them to.
RE: What like all three of them?
From the above report:
In Austria, the Catholic Church received some 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016 and nearly three-quarters of those are refugees converting from Islam, the Guardian reported.
And that’s just in Austria.
God’s ways are truly unfathomable.
Would it not be ironic if the European invasion would cause a total muzzie conversion to Christianity? That would constitute a greater disaster for Islam than the sea battle at Lepanto.
Erdogan, eat your heart out.
I believe most of these are real believers. And I am not taking an X-Files 'I want to believe' viewpoint.
Obviously I want to believe, but this is logical, and makes sense. These people were brought up in a society that was trying to revere God, but there was always something a bit off with there religion. Hmm... what was it? Let me see if I can put my finger on it ...
Oh yes, it was utterly crazy and Satanic. Anyone who read the Koran, or heard the rants from there mullahs could draw that conclusion.
But obviously most kept there mouths shut in Islam land. Some brave Believers confessed their belief in Christ, but most people are cowards and even though they know better - they keep their mouths shut if public pronouncements will bring a load of bricks on their heads.
But now that they are out of Islam land, even though still in danger, they are probably checking out this thing called Christianity. And I don't doubt that the Holy Spirit is bringing many to Christ.
It is ironic. We are called out to bring the Gospel to all nations - but we have done a poor job in bringing it to Islamland. Be it cowardice, sloth, or Government opposition (why we allow Saudi Arabia to build thousands of mosques in the United States, yet don't complain that they allow zero churches in Saudi Arabia, is disgraceful) - we (with a few exceptions) have done a poor job in evangelizing the lost in Islamland.
Yet God has means, and if we won't go to the lost in Islamland, He will bring them here.
I don't doubt that there are some infiltrators in their midst - but I believe most are genuine.
Not such a stretch, they already believe in Jesus but think of him only as a prophet and not as God’s son.
Well said.
bkmk
Heard from a couple converting muslims in Detroit—apparently many of these people, particularly the new arrivals, are very willing to convert. Many of them actually know very little about their own religion other than what they are told, so it’s not so much that they were true believers, they were just trying to survive in their own communities. They quickly recognize the difference between good and evil.
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