[Hank Kerchief]

What needs to happen is that for evangelical Christian churches to take the lead. While inviting Muslim leaders to fellowship and "share about Islam," they should in turn "share about the Gospel." Churches near Muslim communities should be stocked with the New Testament and Gospels translated into Arabic. Evangelism can go both ways!

The idea of religious freedom is freedom from having anyone else's religion shoved down our throats, the Muslim's or the Christian's.

Besides your "evanglicalism" doesn't work. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the US (or was up 'til 9/11).

Just examine the case. If each Christian would convert one other person each year, in 30 years there would be over a billion Christians. In other words, if you convert one person to Christianity this year, the you and your convert convert one person each to Christianity the next, and this process continues for 30 years the entire country would be Christian four times over, in thirty years.

What have you Christians been doing?

Hank

[KMJames]

Of course, a Christian can't convert another person - that's up to each individual. Anyway, what's your hold up?

FReegards...

[Valin]

Besides your "evanglicalism" doesn't work. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the US (or was up 'til 9/11).

If it is (and as I have no fifures to prove or disprove this), the advantage it has(as a belief system) is it's simplicity, "there is no god but god, and mohammed is his prophet", as opposed to the trinity in christian thelogy. It also appeals to the idea that there is something you have to do to get to heaven, or some way you must live, as opposed to christianity that says it's already been done all you have to do is accept it. Islam is really more than just a religion it reaches down throughout society telling each member what there duties are to each other and to god. As I see it there is only one small problem with it...it's wrong.

[wcbtinman]

"Islam is the fastest growing religion in the US...."

Does anyone ever comment that Islam rules over most if not all of the social/political cesspools of the world?

I guess that makes it appropriate for America. We seem to be headed in that direction under the guise of "tolerance".

[Brian Allen]

If every Christian would convert one person every year, in 30 years there would be over a billion Christians.

And, given that there are more than two and a half billion of us [Including more than 350 million in America and 200 million in "China!"] -- and that the whole shebang began with one Mans admonition that we love one another -- I guess by your -- or any other -- measure we are doing pretty well, eh snotters?

[LJLucido]

What have you Christians been doing?

A lot of the ones I know have been trying to convert each other.

[Marysecretary]

Not nearly enough, Hank, not nearly enough.

[Don Myers]

"What have you Christians been doing?"

Trying to maintain our sanity? Trying to just survive in this truly wierd world?