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Is this the end of Christianity in the Middle East? When a respected Christian communicator read the question posed by the New York Times, he chose to travel to Jordan and Iraq in search of answers. What he discovered left him amazed and inspired.
While the news coverage of ISIS focuses on the horrors wrought by this group, there is another side to the story that rarely gets told. While terror is on the rise, Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus like never before.
Charles Morris regularly reminds the 500,000 listeners of his Haven Today radio show that its all about Jesus, and through his new bookFleeing Isis, Finding Jesushe offers a unique, compelling account of the miraculous ways in which Jesus is transforming lives in the Middle East today.
As Charles narrates his travels around the region, he shares with readers not just the good news of how Jesus is at work, but he also invites us to wonder how our own lives might be transformed as a result.
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This book will remind you of the cost of accepting Christ. It will open your eyes to the powerful, miraculous truth of what is really happening in the wake of ISIS today. And it is my prayer that it will leave you inspired to pray harder, to speak louder, and to hold tighter to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs for Samaritans Purse
Fleeing ISIS, Finding Jesus is a challenging and thought-provoking book. It poses the question: Is Christianity dying in the Middle East? Through personal stories and interviews in Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey, Charles Morris demonstrates that God is at work through the persecution of his people to bring about a greater good. He has met many Christians whose faith has been lit on fire by the devastating persecution they faced. By also documenting moving stories of Muslims coming to Christ through dreams and visions, Charles shows there is a move of God happening among Christians and Muslims alike. This book will touch your heart and give you insight into the lives of our persecuted brothers and sisters. It will encourage you and challenge you to pray and to do what you can to be a part of this move of God.
Paul Filidis, CEO of WorldChristian.com and North American coordinator of 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World
Fleeing ISIS, Finding Jesus provides a fascinating boots on the ground perspective of how God is on the move, bringing many to faith in Jesus Christ in the midst of the pressures and atrocities of Islamic terrorism. Your heart will be encouraged by the accounts relayed within this exciting narrative. I recommend it most highly!
Rev. Mateen Elass, PhD, Islam and New Testament scholar and author of The Teachings of Jesus and Muhammad and Understanding the Koran
In these days of Muslims coming to faith in Jesus in unprecedented numbers, the church has a vital role to play. We must engage with them through prayer, care, and understanding. Fleeing ISIS, Finding Jesus can help churches do just that. Read it and you will be moved, amazed, and inspired to act.
Gordon Hickson, national coordinator of Mahabba Network International
As a Christian living in a 97 percent Muslim country in the Middle East, the pressure on me and my family is enormous. And yet we choose to remain in the land that we love, the land that our ancestors have been passing down to their children since the time of Jesus. This book will let you know why.
Anonymous Arab Christian tour guide
FLEEING ISIS, FINDING JESUS
Published by David C Cook
4050 Lee Vance Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80918 U.S.A.
David C Cook U.K., Kingsway Communications
Eastbourne, East Sussex BN23 6NT, England
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All rights reserved. Except for brief excerpts for review purposes,
no part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form
without written permission from the publisher.
The website addresses recommended throughout this book are offered as a resource to you. These websites are not intended in any way to be or imply an endorsement on the part of David C Cook, nor do we vouch for their content.
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV. Copyright 1973, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION and NIV are registered trademarks of Biblica, Inc. Use of either trademark for the offering of goods or services requires the prior written consent of Biblica, Inc.
LCCN 2016955601
Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4347-1071-0
International Trade Paperback ISBN 978-1-4347-1154-0
eISBN 978-1-4347-1107-6
2017 Charles W. Morris, Craig Borlase, and Stephen McCaskell
Cover Photo: Getty Images
First Edition 2017
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To protect the identities of the interviewees featured in this book, most names have been changed. Some of the work we encountered in the region is so sensitive that we have made further changes to locations. In all cases, however, the accounts you are about to read have been re-created faithfully, prayerfully, and with the single desire to share the story of what God is up to in the Middle East more widely without compromising the work itself.
The interviews were gathered on a visit to Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq during January 2016. As well as refugees and internally displaced persons, we met individuals working alone and others working with nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations, and Christian ministries. In particular, we would like to highlight the work of Samaritans Purse, Al-Hadaf, and Global Hope Network International:
samaritanspurse.org
alhadaf.org
globalhopenetwork.org
Charles Morris and Craig Borlase
You welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 NIV
Seeds grow in dark places.
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
You can only drive so far up the mountain toward Rabban Hormizd monastery. The road narrows once it passes the police checkpoint where bored Iraqi cops lounge around and invite you in to smoke a hookah pipe with them. After that, the cracked tarmac switches back and forth as it claws its way up the steep cliffs. But to reach the series of caves and chapels that have been carved into and added onto the rock face above, eventually you have to leave your car behind and walk. Those last couple of hundred feet are not easy, though the burning calf muscles and sweating brow both serve a purpose; they take your mind off the fact that ISIS is less than fourteen miles away.
I did not want to take my mind off ISIS. To be this close to MosulIraqs second-biggest city and the center of ISIS operations for the whole countryit felt wrong to think about anything else.
I wanted to think about them and the lives they were destroying right over the horizon.
In the previous days alone, I had heard enough stories of their appetite for murder, rape, and terror to last a lifetime. Ignoring them felt like a cowardly betrayal.
I was tired when I reached the top of the steps, but I wandered along, passing thousand-year-old caves littered with the debris of recently abandoned building projects.
Since the seventh century, Christians had lived and worshipped here. A persecuted minority in an Islamic region, they had clung to life much as they had clung to the rock.
For centuries they had managed to survive, until a few decades back when it was decided that the mountain was just too exposed and vulnerable and the monastery was moved to the nearby Christian town of Alqosh.
I edged my way past rusted gates and empty tomb-like spaces, out toward a wide ledge that overlooked the plain that stretched out for miles to the south. Nobody was there to charge an entrance fee, to warn me from wandering too close to the edge or tell me not to go in and out of caves at will. So I just kept on going.
I dont quite know what I thought I was going to see when I got up there. There were no dark clouds hovering in the middle distance. There was no smoke rising from the city. There was not even a city to be seen. Just a sky as wide as an ocean and a flat plain of earth stretched out all the way to the horizon. A ridge of low hills marked the direction of Mosul. That was all.
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