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Practical Ways to Reach Out to Muslims (Or Anyone Else). Tip #5: Be Yourself

This one is tougher than it looks.  It’s amazing how much time we spend being someone else.  I’ve done that much of my life.  Even in our attempts to “be like Jesus,” we’re asked to be “like” him in our own skin.  We’re...

Practical Ways to Reach Out to Muslims (Or Anyone Else). Tip #4: No Western Christian Culture

This is a tough one.  The obvious follow-up question is, “How do we know the difference between what’s Western Christian culture and the good stuff?”  Great question.  Answer: It’s not easy to tell.  Because no matter what we read and hear and...

Practical Ways to Reach Out to Muslims (Or Anyone Else). Tip #3: Be A-Religious

After a talk I gave at Harvard one day, a Jewish grad student came to meet with me.  She walked in loaded and ready for a fight.  The first comment from her lips was, “I want you to know that I’m Jewish, and I don’t believe that Jesus was the...

Practical Ways to Reach Out to Muslims (Or Anyone Else). Tip #2: No Agenda

I know, we all have an agenda.  Jesus had one.  His was multifaceted.  To serve.  To teach twelve. To live in a way we could see the Father.  To love.  To die.  And it seems the people he met never felt “used” by him.  He never left a sinful woman or a...

Practical Ways to Reach Out to Muslims (or Anyone Else). Tip #1: Have Fun

It always amazes me how often those of us from Christian backgrounds (especially the more conservative types) don’t know how to party. In fact, that very word makes some nervous. Part of our excuse is that we’re dealing with a life-and-death...
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