The
pastors of Katy, Texas, twenty-five miles east of Houston, considered
their town blessed. Unlike other towns in
the Houston area there
were no pagan temples for the worship of foreign gods in Katy. There
were no places of worship set apart for the "religion of peace" in
their community. However, with the adherents of the religion of peace
aggressively spreading their religion throughout the west, it would
be only a matter of time before such a place of worship would go
up---that is, if the pastors of Katy did not actively equip and mobilize
the followers of Jesus Christ to preach the gospel to them in the
power of miraculous signs.
Thus at this moment a place of worship for the religion of peace
is being planned for construction in Katy. Godly leaders of Katy
are now calling the faithful to pray to the God of heaven in order
to bring the program to a halt. This is of course essential. However,
if all we do is gather together to pray---and nothing else---the
advance of the religion of peace in Katy will be inexorable. Sooner
of later their place of worship will go up. And then perhaps another.
What must we do?
Even
as we pray, we must systematically equip the body of Christ in
Katy how to proclaim the kingdom of God to
the sons of Ishmael
in the power of miraculous signs and healing. It is known that
they are very impressed by the miraculous. We must also train believers
to become missionaries to the sons of Ishmael and show them how
to contextualize the gospel to their culture and way of thinking.
We should not preach a "western" or traditional gospel
to them, but a "pure" gospel from which unnecessary westernization
has been removed. The traditional approach involving conversion
is generally distasteful to them.
In
contrast, the approach of contextualization can bring about a
mass
movement
of these souls
into the
kingdom
of
God. This
is
already
beginning to take place in a certain country which has more of
them than any other country on earth. After being trained by
The Elijah
Challenge, local servants of God have won over thirty "unreachable" villages
to Isa Almasih, which is Jesus Christ in Arabic. Please click
on the links below to read about what is being accomplished in
that country as well as the scriptural approach which is being
employed there. The same approach can be utilized in Katy and
anywhere
in the
West where the religion of peace is advancing.