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From the Straight Path to the Narrow Way ISBN-13: 978-1-932805-42-0
ISBN-10: 1-932805-42-7
Copyright 2005 by David H. Greenlee, editor
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Published in 2006 by Authentic Media

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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV, Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations indicated ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Cover design: Paul Lewis
Interior design: Angela Duerksen
Editorial team: Andy Sloan, K.J. Larson, Megan Kassebaum

Printed in the United States of America Acknowledgments ixContributors xi
SECTION 1
MISSIOLOGICAL OVERVIEW
1. The Good News Is Good News! 3
DAVID GREENLEE
2. A Global Perspective on Muslims 11Coming to Faith in Christ
J. DUDLEY WOODBERRY
3. Worldview Transformation 23
PAUL G. HIEBERT
4. Conversion through the Looking Glass: 35Muslims and the Multiple Facets of Conversion
DAVID GREENLEE AND RICK LOVE
5. The Role of the Scriptures in 51Muslims Coming to Faith in Jesus
DAVID MARANZ
6. Theological Implications of Changes in 65Christian Approaches to Islam
JIM TEBBE
UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCE OF COMING TO FAITH
7. Learning from Gods Ways 81
JEAN-MARIE GAUDEUL
8. In Search of a New Life: 93Conversion Motives of Christians and Muslims
ANDREAS MAURER
9. North African Women and Conversion: 109Specifics of Female Faith and Experience
EVELYNE REISACHER
10. Experiencing Jesus: 125Reflections of South Asian Women
MARY MCVICKER
11. Barriers Become Bridges: 137African Accounts of Stages of Coming to Faith
CHRISTEL ERIC
12. Factors Leading to Conversion 157among Central Asian Muslims
HASAN ABDULAHUGLI
13. Coming to Faith in Pakistan 167
EDWARD EVANS
14. A Handful from an Unreached Megapeople 187
P. I. BARNABAS
UNDERSTANDING SOME MOVEMENTS TO FAITH

15. Hindrances to Evangelistic Growth among 199Muslim Background Believer Churches of the
Jijimba People of West Africa

DAN MCVEY
16. An Insider Movement among Fulbe Muslims 215
LOWELL DE JONG
17. Embedment of the Gospel into the Fulbe Muslim Context 229
LOWELL DE JONG
18. Muslim Villagers Coming to Faith in Christ: 239A Case Study and Model of Group Dynamics
JOHN KIM
19. A Move of God in a Muslim Land 255
RICHARD TUCKER
20. The Beauty of Jesus as an Evangelistic Factor 265
ABRAHAM DURN
SECTION 4
CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
21. Looking Back: A Personal Reflection 277
HELEN STEADMAN
22. Conclusion: Looking Ahead 285
DAVID SMITH
Appendix 305Endnotes 315

This book is published with thanks to the family whose generous gift made possible both this book and the consultation from which it arose.

We thank our God every time we remember you. We pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, confident that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

(paraphrased from Philippians 1:36)

Thanks also to those who graciously welcomed us and hosted our gathering, to the authors who have spent long hours writing and revising these papers, to Greg who helped us get them into shape for publication, and to Volney, Angela, Andy, and the team at our publisher who have helped us make these papers available to you, the reader.

Most of all, we thank our brothers and sisters who have come to faith in Christ, whose stories we tell in these pages, and Jesus Christ in whom we share a common hope.

The Editors

Hasan Abdulahugli is a Central Asian. Raised during the Soviet era, he came to faith in Christ in the early 1990s and is a leader in the growing church in his country.

P. I. Barnabas has lived and worked among an unreached people group for more than thirty-two years and speaks the indigenous language. He does direct personal evangelism and trains and equips other Christians to do likewise. He leads a monthly meeting of leaders who minister among this UPG. He received his PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Lowell de Jong and his wife grew up on the mission field and as adults have worked in Africa as missionaries for thirty-two years.

Abraham Durn has served for twelve years in the Middle East. He is among the first generation of cross-cultural workers sent out from the evangelical churches of Latin America. He is associated with FRONTIERS, an interdenominational agency seeking the glory of Jesus in the Muslim world.

Since 1981 Christel Eric and her husband have worked amongvarious Muslim communities in different areas in sub-Saharan Africa.Their main focus was not only to reach out themselves, but also toinvolve, help, and train the local Christians to share their faith withtheir Muslim neighbors and friends. They have developed literatureand other media to equip Christians, along with helping Muslims tounderstand the gospel. Christels special desire was to build closefriendships with Muslim women and youth, convinced that the handthat rocks the cradle, rules the world! Christel and her husband aremissionaries of SIM International.

Edward Evans, from England, has twenty-five years of experience with Pakistani Muslim converts in Pakistan and Britain. For more than fifteen of those years he worked in a Bible-teaching role in Pakistan. He holds a masters degree in Islamic Societies and Cultures, for which he wrote a dissertation, Factors Affecting Attitudes to Apostasy in Pakistan. Chapter 13 is adapted from that dissertation. Edward is married and the father of three children.

David Greenlee grew up in a missionary family in South America. He has served with Operation Mobilization since 1977, currently in the role of International Research Associate. Married and the father of three children, he holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois, USA.

Jean-Marie Gaudeul was born in 1937. Fr. Gaudeul is a Roman Catholic priest, a member of the Missionary Society of the White Fathers. Ordained in 1963, he worked for several years in Tanzania as a parish priest. From 1975 to 1984, he taught at the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome. Author of several books on the history of Christian-Muslim relations, he holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the PISAI (Rome). Currently, he is in charge of the French Bishops Secretariat for Relations with Islam (SRI) and is a member of the Vatican Commission for Christian-Muslim Dialogue.