Posted on 12/31/2017 7:13:24 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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.
"It's illegal in many Muslim countries to convert to another religion. It's safer to convert to Christianity in Europe." - Timothy Furnish, author of books on Islam
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Yes. As God proves time and time again in His Word and His ways of working His plans out in this world... :)
“Then where are all the Muslim converts in America? Not buying this story.”
I’ve met a few, but you have to understand that refugees are in a heightened spiritual state due to the trials and traumas they’ve faced...not everyone voluntarily left their lives to end up in Europe...Some were quite well off and settled in their various places of origin: doctors, lawyers, you name it.
Then war strikes. Then homeless.
Holy Toledo....again....yawn...
Since leaving Islam puts a death sentence on your head - and even in Europe, they will find you if they are looking for apostates - I'd have to say that some do believe.
I bet a lot of those converts were secret Christians in the country they came from....it is dangerous to be an open practicing non Muslim in those countries and a lot of Christianity is underground
If liberal courts send you lemons, just maybe you can make lemonade.
That’s my thought as well.
Time will tell and God knows their hearts.
I would like for it to be sincere. Really.
But I have very serious doubts about it.
Fake News from Faux News.
This is the same “Justification” they are using to get more illegals into the USA.
If it really worked, CA would have the biggest congregations in the country.
I live here and the immigrant Christian community is huge.
God’s Truth is marching on.
I am skeptical, but hopeful. I hope there are enough Christians around that have discernment and will be able to know them by their fruit!
God works in mysterious ways,
His wonders to perform.
He plants his footsteps in the sea
and rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs
And works His sov’reign will.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flow’r.
Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain..
We grow them here in NE Ohio...Only way we can grow them oranges is inside an apple! :)
Limes we grow indoors. Get a few limes too!
If Donald J. Trump could become President of the United States beating the heck out of Hillary Rodham Clinton “against all odds, then anything is possible.
In 1933vthey would have written: NAZI Bund meetings stimulate sagging beer sakes”.
Real miracles by the power of a very real and ever present God.
Mmmm - I want one :)
I PRAY this is true. Was in Paris for Easter Sunday 30 yrs ago and there was about 25 people in this huge gorgeous Church!! I KNEW Europe was in big trouble then.
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