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Author: Trousdale Jerry
Brand: Thomas Nelson
Edition: 3.7.2012
Number Of Pages: 208
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MIRACULOUS MOVEMENTS
How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with JesusBy JERRY TROUSDALE Thomas NelsonCopyright © 2012 CityTeam
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ISBN: 978-1-4185-4728-8
Contents
About the Team and Author………………………………………………………………….9Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..131. Unprecedented!…………………………………………………………………………192. Jesus’ Counterintuitive Disciple-Making Strategy…………………………………………..333. Pray the Lord of the Harvest…………………………………………………………….474. Inside Islam Disillusionment and Discontentment…………………………………………..675. Engaging Lostness………………………………………………………………………836. Discovery Bible Studies and Obedience-Based Discipleship……………………………………997. Simple Churches, Dramatic Transformation, Rapid Replication…………………………………1118. Dreams, Visions, and Miracles Among Muslims……………………………………………….1279. “Of Whom the World Is Not Worthy” Learning from Heroes and Heroines of Faith…………………14110. The Hardest People Yield the Greatest Results…………………………………………….15511. Ordinary People Achieving the Impossible…………………………………………………16712. Seven Paradigm Shifts………………………………………………………………….17913. Getting Started Biblical Practices for Engaging Lostness………………………………….187Appendix 1……………………………………………………………………………….201Appendix 2……………………………………………………………………………….203Notes……………………………………………………………………………………207
Chapter One
UNPRECEDENTED!
You must come back to this area! A tidal wave has come! Muslims are coming to Christ in a flood. Come and help us.
—plea from a former regional Muslim leader who had become a church planter
THE SHEIKH’S DREAM
Sheikh Hanif’s dream was very curious indeed, both overwhelming and hopeful. It was not at all like the frightening and troubling nightmares that he had sometimes known. No, this was very different, and there was little time to reflect on this dream. It required immediate action because, according to the dream, something important would happen today, something that required him to be in place before first light.
Hanif was a seasoned Muslim leader. Like his father before him, he had studied the Qur’an for years. One of Hanif’s superiors had observed Hanif’s people skills, which had resulted in his being recruited to organize Muslim communities and launch new mosques. For eight years, he had done this with excellence. For his community, Hanif was the voice and character of Islam, a decent man who represented what it meant to be a good Muslim.
But there was one thing that no one else could ever know. Hanif’s commitment to Islam was genuine, but there was a deep void in his soul that Islam had never really satisfied. He longed for certainty regarding his status with God. He struggled to find answers or reasons for the violence inside his Islamic world. He grieved at the lack of compassion for suffering people. And he recognized that his religion did not allow him or the people he led to make choices for themselves, nor did it give them satisfying answers for the huge struggles of life. But this night, Hanif had awakened in the dark hours with a new hope burning inside: perhaps he was about to learn the answers to these questions!
It had been a dream like no other dream. In it, Hanif had encountered a very handsome and
Release Date: 05-03-2012
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