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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LOL! Yeah. Okay FOX.
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RE: LOL! Yeah. Okay FOX.
Not only FOX.
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Hope it turns out better than the converts in greece or turkey that murdered the priest
They don’t have to be in Europe to convert.
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Droves of Middle East Muslims are converting to Christianity.
FROM VOICE OF THE MARTYRS:
https://vomcanada.com/mideast-2017-01-05.htm
Despite the mass exodus of many Christians, the church is far from empty in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and other parts of the Middle East. God has been very faithful. There are strong Christian believers remaining, and tremendous growth is taking place in the lives of new believers who were Muslims. The presence of the church is vitally important. People are desperate and see very little hope, but the fact that there still is a church gives them encouragement and hope.
Wow talk about trojan horse.
You are quoting the Daily Beast?!!!
That’s a Soros publication that has Chelsea Clinton on it’s board! Almost everything that come out of this filthy rats is stinking lie.
This is just to convince Christians world wild to let radical Islam into Europe.
TOTAL BULL$HIT!
Now you are quoting the sell out Glen Beck???
You are killing me!
Protestants, evangelical or Catholic
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Here we go again...
Protestant I know...Catholic I know...
again I have to ask what’s an evangelical ???
In fact, there are so many people defecting from muslimism in either Iran or Iraq, that they have been told by authorities to just be quiet about it. I guess they don't have room in prison for all the people converting.
We are living in God's time, not Mohammed's.
Ever hear of Taqiyya? Taqiyya is an Islamic juridical term whose shifting meaning relates to when a Muslim is allowed, under Sharia law to lie, especially to ALL infidels.
Why is my first thought on this suspicious?
A million Trojan horses?
A sad commentary indeed. And not at all what leaders in that continent intended I am sure. This is more proof of how lost the leadership and their citizens have become. This is not to say that between the left and MMM in this country aren’t right on their heels.
Can anybody spell infiltration?
TOTAL BULL$HIT!
You sound quite Christian - - - NOT!
It isn’t total BS.
In Germany, there are large numbers of converts. Often to a “Free church” that isn’t ran by Germany.
RE: Can anybody spell infiltration?
The early Christians also thought that St. Paul was an infiltrator.
To be an evangelical, you must pray, read the Bible, go to church, and have the intentionality to convert others.
That’s from Billy Graham (one of his books).
Nothing else required.
Evangelical churches are supposed to have an altar call at the end. The church doesn’t have to call itself evangelical. In fact, that can be deceptive.
By the way, he didn’t use the word “intentionality.” That’s from Rollo May (Love and Will).
RE: A million Trojan horses?
I would say that this is the same as refugees. Of the tens of thousands of refugees from war torn Syria, there are some ISIS Trojan horses, but that does not mean that the rest are not legitimate refugees fleeing a war-torn country.
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