"There have been a number of attempts to fine-tune church planting strategies for Muslim contexts,
but it’s time missionaries develop radical, retooled-from-the-bottom-up strategies. We need to
begin by re-inverting our priorities. Instead of strategies that organize the few into churches, we
need strategies that prepare the masses for a movement towards Christ. This requires missionaries
with an intense focus on faithful witness. We need missionaries for whom the institutions of
Christianity do not loom large in the background and foreground of all that they do, introducing
Muslims to a Jesus with 2000 years of Christian history stuck to his back. We need missionaries
who resolve “…to know nothing while with [Muslims] except Jesus Christ and him crucified”;15 who
introduce Muslims to the Jesus of the Gospels and to the Kingdom of God; who let them take Jesus
home into their culture and trust Jesus to take care of the rest."
Larry Vanderaa
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