Grace, Truth, & Boldness with Muslim Neighbors
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You can find my podcast and other podcasts similar to mine on the Christian Podcast Community at podcast.strivingforeternity.org. The Ear, Evangelical and Reformed, Christian Podcast. Welcome to The Ear, the Evangelical and Reformed, a Christian podcast that urges you to think deeper and draws you closer to God through faith. Through powerful sermons, teaching segments, and discussions, The Ear hopes to give you a different perspective on secular topics from a Christian worldview. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Please welcome your host, Brandon Queen. Well, welcome back to another episode of the Ear podcast. I'm your host, Brandon Queen. And today we're joined by a special guest, a good friend of mine, Timothy Harris. And we're diving right back into some powerful, challenging topics based on his book, Loving Your Muslim Neighbor. Now, if you have a copy of this book, we will be in chapters 33 to 35 of the book.
And we've been studying this for quite some time and we are making our way to the end. So these chapters bring up questions that really force us to reflect on how we live out our faith in today's world. So, Timothy, it is great to have you back with us, brother.
Thank you so much, Brandon. It's just a pleasure to be here. It's a real honor. And I'm looking forward to digging into your questions tonight.
Awesome. Awesome. Well, picking up on our last episode, you talked about a guy a few episodes back about a guy, you know, wanting to hit you and how you ended up just hugging him and just diffusing, you know, that situation. So we're going to start off with the first segment of our conversation today, and it's going to be chapter 33, which is titled, Can we both be right about what we believe? So let's start off with. this chapter okay now we live in a world that is full of different beliefs and these questions come up a lot especially in our interactions with people of other faiths backgrounds such as muslims in a political world you know we have this thing where absolute truth is no longer truth it's your truth and my truth And nobody can refute my truth or I can't refute your truth.
So, Timothy, with that, let me ask you this. Have you seen examples of Christians being too forceful in evangelism?
Absolutely. I mean, here's what we see, Brandon. We see that most believers, they want to share their faith with those who don't yet follow Jesus. And we kind of see that it's like two pendulum, two ends of a pendulum swinging. It's all one way or another. It's either, it seems like what we see with people is it's all truth and very little or no grace. So these are the Christians that kind of let their evangelism actually get in the way of their kindness and friendship and service to Muslims. They're just so forceful. And they really view Muslim people as projects or targets. Wow. Yeah, they unnaturally just force their evangelism, and they never build a real sincere relationship with them. But we also see people, Brandon, do the opposite.
So the first example kind of is all truth and little or no grace. But the other thing we see in some believers— as they evangelize, and now we're talking mostly as it relates to Muslims, is they're on the opposite end of the spectrum, or as the pendulum swings, they are all grace, but little or no truth. And what I mean by that is that they let their kindness and friendship and service to Muslims get in the way of their evangelism. So they rightfully and humbly love and serve Muslim people, but they never get around them. to any kind of real or serious faith discussions for fear that they will lose the relationship. So we see people on both kind of ends of that spectrum, or as I said, the pendulum swings too wide, too broadly either way. Instead of the balance of Jesus in John 1, 14, grace and truth, just the balance of grace and truth.
Awesome. That is a perfect example of how I've seen people push their way through. And I've seen it with not Christians sharing with Muslims. I've just seen it with, you know, people on the street corners. And look, I respect the street preachers and some of them, you know, they do it for the right reason. They do it to bring about God's grace and also the truth.
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