Tips for Reaching out to Muslims

Tips for Reaching out to Muslims

• Intentionally welcome Muslims to your neighborhood.
• Pray for them as you walk around the community, as you pass by homes and businesses.
• Speak to those you meet while shopping and take an interest in shops frequented by those from different cultures.
• Be aware of and able to talk about current events in their home countries.
  
• Ask how their family members who still live in that country are doing.
• Involve families in reaching families, especially with Muslim leaders in the community.
• Share meals in their homes.
• Make them welcome in your home, giving them an opportunity to learn about Christian families.
  
• Include single adults in your outreach.
• Be aware of Islamic holidays and be prepared to talk about how and why your family observes holidays as Christians.
• Learn their language and culture. This will help you earn the right to share your faith.
• Offer to teach your Muslim friends English and about American culture, and ask them to teach you about their language and culture.
• Find and use tools available for sharing your faith within Islamic settings.
• Be ready to listen at length to their stories, discerning how God already is working in their lives.
• Expect to see a hunger for spiritual truth.
  
• Expect to hear about dreams and visions.
• Be ready and able to share appropriate Bible stories in response to life situations and questions asked.
• Remember that some of your new friends may be functionally illiterate.
• Bathe yourself in prayer.
• Prepare for spiritual warfare.
• Go in pairs for strength and accountability.
• Understand that young Muslims often are attracted to the forbidden.
• Be careful not to circumvent Muslim parents as you share your faith.
• Be wise and bold in your witness to those with status within Islamic communities.
• Within your own church, talk publicly with discernment and sensitivity for converts' well-being.
• Choose team members carefully.
• Keep outreach and publicity low key.
• Do not treat any converts as trophies.
• Prepare converts from Islam for the biblical reality of persecution.
• Gather families of converts into small groups and establish house churches.
• Model a form of "church" that expresses their own culture (indigenous) and is exportable to their homeland (reproducible).
• Place a desire within new believers to return to their home country to share the Gospel.
• Be seen as a believer who loves only One God and His Bible.
• Express genuine love for them and their gatherings while avoiding church property-based ministries.