Maria is Going as a Missionary to a Muslim Country

[Jefferson]

Maria is Going as a Missionary to a Muslim Country

Wednesday March 1st, 2006. This is show # 43.

Summary:
* Bob talks with a courageous young Christian woman going as a missionary to a Muslim country about the risk; the gospel; Islamic mistreatment of women; and the Arab concept of honor and shame which they elevate above right and wrong. Support her here and indicate "Islamic Missions."
* Maranatha Christian Center thanks Santa Fe Christian school for publicly rebuking one of their own former students, actress Michelle Williams for appearing in immoral entertainment like "Brokeback Mountain," and "Dawson's Creek."
* Another pro-homosexual columnist, this one from Texas at LufkinDailyNews, praises Dr. Dobson for finally supporting "gay rights" in the form of Colorado's Reciprocal Benefits Bill, showing that the situational ethics embraced by Focus on the Family undermines moral clarity.
* Foreign Policy Magazine recognizes that liberals are not marrying, not having kids, and killing their children (through abortion), and thus, "conservatives will inherit the Earth."
* "Pet-loving Europe" is in alarm that bird flu killed a cat in Germany, and since Europeans have given up on marriage and kids, now they walk pets and build parks more for animals than for children.
* Caller: Wayne (webmaster at KGOVArchives.com); on growth of international listeners to BEL, including from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Afghanistan, China, etc., with total BEL show downloads of about 500 Gigabytes (500,000,000,000 bytes of BEL show info) per year!
Today's Resource: Mt. Moriah Evidence for the Resurrection DVD/VHS

BEST QUOTE OF THE SHOW:

[Muslims] typically believe that anything they see in the American movies, in a businessman that comes to visit from the west, all the things they hear about how corrupt the west is, abortion, all of this is just stacked up to be "Christianity." ...And the neat thing about going to a country that's very Islamic and living there and making friends with the people and learning their culture is that a lot of times Christians can show Muslims that that is not the way the Bible has us be. Show the difference between the way Americans live and the way Christians are supposed to act. ...And this is a huge impact on that culture. It's a great opportunity. They ask you. They want to know why you don't act like what they think Christians ought to act. ...And the neat thing is when we have an opportunity to go and live there and learn their language and their culture and begin to build relationships with those people and show them and they start asking questions: "Well, why aren't you like that?" And then you can share the gospel because that's what we're really trying to do. ...And they're very interested in it. And they want to know. And they want to know why you're different.