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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In 1933 they would have written: “NAZI Bund meetings stimulate sagging beer sales”.
Its time for those who have fallen away from the Church to come back and breath additional life into the Church.
JoMa
Wonderful idea then... only Muslims willing to convert are allowed in as “refugees”
Vetting requires eating pork sausage, bacon, pork hocks and beans, glub, and pigs-in-a-blanket for two straight months, and wrapping the waste using the Koran.
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