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Five Insights on Evangelism
from an Arab Christian
BY HIKMAT KASHOUH
We should be careful never to treat the people we meet merely as potential
converts. They are people created in the image of God, and as such they deserve
our love and care. But unfortunately, we sometimes go to the opposite extreme
and fall prey to our own fears and do not share Christ with others. If it is true that
95 percent of believers in the world do not lead one person to Christ in their whole
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leader Hikmat Kashouh (pictured life, we are in serious trouble. This statistic would seem quite accurate; otherwise,
above in prayer and at right with why would God have to visit people in dreams and visions if we were all sharing
a young Syrian refugee) trains and our testimony faithfully?
mobilizes the Lebanese church to Our calling as believers is not merely to visit and to listen to others, but it is also to
serve and love the mostly Muslim speak in the way Paul encouraged when he said, “Let no corrupting talk come out
Syrian refugee population.
of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that
it may give grace to those who hear” (Eph 4:29). We should speak remembering
that our Christian witness is a duty and a privilege. Christ has commanded us to do
it, and by obeying his commandment, we receive the honor and the undeserved
privilege of being part of his divine purpose.
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