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Pastor Jerrold H. Lewis. (Dipl. IT; Assc. A; B.Th; M.Th Candidate, PRTS)
Lacombe Free Reformed Church
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JOHN FLAVEL

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Muslim, Mormon, JW, atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, it's all the same since it's not Christianity. The heathen will always out number the Christians...Christ guaranteed it!

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

Oh Oh, I had 5 people in my office this morning. That means one of them is secretly a muslim.

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Bob Vigneault C.O.L, L.E., G.E, Dr.O.P., O.U.T.
The Heartbeat of Heaven (blog)
Deacon/Christ Presbyterian Church, Janesville, WI OPC www.christ-opc.org

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Well that statistic is scary...............

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RL

I suppose that's a slow reversal of the general trend for the last 5 centuries, with Christians growing in numbers and power and riches and Muslims going the other way. Except that Muslims are still poor and have little influence.

It's important to keep in mind that in poor, backwards areas populations can't increase without lots of water for irrigation, so the big numbers won't be found in the Mideast, but rather Pakistan, India, Indonesia etc.. I've heard talk of Arab Muslim interest in developing potentially rich agricultural land in the Sudan etc...but it hasn't amounted to anything yet. Afghanistan has water but only a short growing season, which explains a certain pretty blue flower which they harvest the sap from. Iran has the money and technology to build huge canal systems which would make them a food exporting country, but several factors hinder this e.g. the fact that half of Iranians hate Persians.

In short, viewing Muslims in a monolithic way would be like predicting Swedish political developments by studying Uruguay, and I suppose one should keep that in mind.

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Tim Vaughan
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian, OPC,
Santa Maria
California

Homosexuals beware!

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16 people in my class right now. 4 must be Muslims.

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Andrew DeShazo
Husband of Kathryn
Father of Phillip-Giles B. DeShazo
Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"From out of the depth of unbroken Infinfity arose the Question, "Who am I?" And to that Question there is the answer, "I am God!" -Meher Baba, died 1969.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Christ, died 33 AD, ressurected three days later.

Actually Ken, Kandahar has for centuries been the world wide epicenter for homosexuality. In Pushtoon culture a man gains status by having a boy lover. Any attempt to look at Muslims monolithically will cause you to make false assumptions.

Actually there is a 76% chance that at lease one of them is Muslim.

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Scott Roper
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Winston-Salem, NC
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What verse are you talking about?

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Dewey D
Reformed Heritage Church (Independent at the moment)
San Fransicko, CA

I wonder what the attraction is. I have always wondered how someone would sign on to that when you can't get many a Christian to show up once a week to worship.

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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
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Richard, in addition to the obvious fact that they tend to be more Biblical when it comes to the number of kids then Christians, in some cases pride is involved. In SA some of the poorer Christians from the Coloured ethnic group convert since most Coloureds are binge drinkers and suffer poor health. They see Muslims, who don't drink, healthier and having more money as better, and naturally the Muslims see the same thing. But it's really not many. Most are due to do natural child bearing, and naturally it's much more than religion; as with poor people from largely agrarian cultures they just have more kids.

I worked with a guy who was an interrogator for the US Army in Afghanistan during the first part of the war and he said that they were pretty much all gay or perverted in some way. He said it was shocking really how twisted they actually are. They think that looking at women is bad but they dive right into homosexualness.

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David
PCA
Richardson, Texas

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
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Most of these Muslims are nominal and practice folk islam.

Plus, many of today's wars are muslims killing muslims.

Finally, as communications become more global and Islam becomes more fanatic, more and more will flee Islam.

Their high numbers are due to conquest and a high birth rate. Many are turning to Christ.

All the more reason to send missionaries in greater numbers to the Muslim world.

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Pergamum


"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone

The same with the muslim arabs in the Gulf, they have a local proverb----Sex with a woman to produce kids, Sex with a watermelon for pleasure and Sex with a boy for sheer exstasy. Disgusting culture. And they look down on us Westerners for our immorality!!

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Jacob Peters
Layman
URC
Toronto
Canada

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Norm
IA PCA

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:4-5

To paraphrase the (questionable) movie 300, "1 out of 4? Great odds for any Christian."


There are several verses but this one comes to mind:

"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."
-Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV)

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Ben Franks

I attend: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC)
in Purcellville, Virginia
I'm a member of: Heartland Community Church (PCA)
in Wichita, Kansas
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My wife and I have 3 children, none of which are Muslims. She wants another but now I am not so sure...

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Michael Turner
Christ Reformed Church | Independent [WCF]
Georgia

Every baby is a muslim at birth, until they are corrupted so says many of the clerics.