Me:  Howdy, Prodigal!  What are you doing today?

 

Prodigal:  I am at this church and just wondering about the Christian faith.  We pass church buildings all the time but what is it about?

 

Me:  Good question and today I can explain a little bit more about the difference in Christian faith and Islam.

 

Ravi Zacharias in his book Jesus Among Other Gods explains some of the difference.

 

The teaching of Jesus is clear.  No one ought to be compelled to become a Christian.  This sets the Christian faith drastically apart from Islam.  In no country where the Christian faith is the faith of the majority is it illegal to propagate another faith.  There is no country in the world that I know of where the renunciation of one’s Christian faith puts one in danger of being hunted down by the powers of state.  Yet, there are numerous Islamic countries where it is against the law to publicly proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and where a Muslim who renounces his or her belief in Islam to believe in anything else risks death.

 

See Jesus is truth and love.  The truth stands alone without having to be forced.  Non truth has to bully and use fear to survive.  Jesus never forces us.  He loves us too much.  He wants a relationship that is based on you seeking Him.  Not one of fear and manipulation.  Jesus wants to love you and not control you.  Jesus wants to have a relationship and not a dictatorship.  Jesus wants peace and not fear to be in your life.

Jesus is different because he is all that He claims to be!

 

Luke 6:47

 

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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