Abstract: Thirty-two Moroccan Christians were surveyed about their lives in this Muslim kingdom, including their current lifestyle, church involvement, family life and aspirations for the future.

Islam has been an important part of American life going back at least to the 1940’s, although history indicates Muslims have actually been a part of our country’s founding from the eighteenth century. 

 In the attached article, I examine the demand [issued by some Christian groups in Germany and the USA] that Arab Christians should not address God as Allah in prayer, and that we should never render the Arabic term “Allah” as “Gott” in German  (or “God” in English).

Islam poses several challenges to today’s world. There are the popular uprisings against political leaders in many Muslim-majority countries, the Arab Spring, for example. There is the mass-migration of Muslims to Europe, Germany in particular.

The Muslim terrorists who shocked Paris by their brazen murders in early January provoked a massive reaction.   Three and a half million people marched through the streets of the French capital on January 11 with forty-four heads of the nations and their representatives leading them.  America was absent.

A friend of mine forwarded a blog by Dr. Matthew Stone, a former Muslim, entitled, “Why Christians Deterred Me from Leaving Islam.”  In the context of the refugee crisis sweeping Europe and the prospect of receiving 10,000 of those Muslim refugees here in the United States, Dr. Stone’s thoughts are worth considering.

 One of the reasons I love history is because I get to know how the story of a particular person or event ends.  It’s satisfying.  When we consider the story of our times, I know how that one is going to end too.  But the problem is to figure out just where we are in the timeline. 

Any Christian pursuing deeper relationships with Muslims eventually has to struggle with this question: Allah and Yahweh—are they the same God? This question became the topic of heated discussion at the annual convention of a notable evangelical denomination this past summer.

Why would we want to build credibility among Muslims? Well, there are short and long answer to that question.  The short answer is all I will try to provide here.

At the 41st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America this past June, during the presentation of the Study Committee Report on Insider Movements, the hottest issue was the concern of the use of “Allah” for God and the possible confusion or identity of the God of the Bible with Allah of the Quran. 

The World Reformed Fellowship is facilitating networks of partnerships in reaching out to Muslim Background Christians. The article of Gene Daniels in the January/February 2013 of Christianity Today on Following Christ in Embedded Muslim Culture puts important points for consideration on our agenda.

The material below was provided by WRF member Phil [last name not provided here at Phil's request for security reasons].  Phil may be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..