In chapter one of The Camel: How Muslims are Coming to Faith in Christ, “It Began in a Village,” Kevin Greeson tells how “a vital church-planting movement of historic size and scope” began among Muslims in South Asia. This Muslim church-planting movement began in a village with a nine year old Muslim boy named Abdul. His [...]
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Book Review of The Camel, Part Last
Posted: November 27, 2010 in Book Reviews, ContextualizationTags: Kevin Greeson's The Camel---How Muslims are Coming to Faith in Christ
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Book Review of The Camel, Part Thee
Posted: November 25, 2010 in Book Reviews, ContextualizationTags: International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, J. Gerald Harris, Jerry Rankin, The Camel Method
J. Gerald Harris, Editor of The Christian Index interviewed with Southern Baptist International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin. Rankin defends the Camel Method and addresses one of the issues in reaching Muslims: One major concern has to do with Christians using the name Allah for God. There are those who seem to think IMB missionaries who [...]
Book Review of The Camel, Part Two
Posted: November 24, 2010 in Book Reviews, ContextualizationTags: Ergun Caner, International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Rankin, Kevin Greeson, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times, The Camel Method
Here is how the New York Times weighed in on the Camel Method debate: On Feb. 3, Ergun Caner, president of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, in Lynchburg, Va., focused attention on a Southern Baptist controversy when he called Jerry Rankin, the president of the denomination’s International Mission Board, a liar. Dr. Caner has since [...]
Book Review of The Camel, Part One
Posted: November 23, 2010 in Book Reviews, ContextualizationTags: C1-C6 Spectrum, Contextualization, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, J. D. Greear's Breaking the Islamic Code, John Travis, Joseph Cummings, Kevin Greeson, Phil Parshall, The 10/40 Window, The Camel: How Muslims are Coming to Christ
Kevin Greeson promotes a method for reaching Muslims called “The Camel Method”. In his book The Camel: How Muslims are Coming to Faith in Christ Greeson endorses believers using the Qur’an, the Muslim Bible, in witnessing to Muslims. First, let me say that I appreciate Kevin Greeson’s burden to reach unsaved Muslims. When I read his book my heart [...]
Contextualize without Compromise, Part 2
Posted: June 9, 2010 in ContextualizationTags: Bob Harrington, Contextualization, David Sills, Ed Stetzer, J. Hudson Taylor, Jay Adams, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, Martin Luther, Phil Parshall, SBC International Mission Broad, The Chaplain of Bourbon Street, Tim Keller
GBC Sermon Audio – June 6 PM, 2010 I was recently asked by a church member about Bob Harrington, who was named “The Chaplain of Bourbon Street” by the major of New Orleans in 1963. I had almost forgotten about him. Billy Graham said Bob Harrington was “bringing a witness for Jesus Christ to the middle [...]
Contextualize without Compromise, Part 1
Posted: June 8, 2010 in ContextualizationTags: Advance the Church, and Models., Contextualization, Contextualization: Meanings, David J. Hesselgrave, Ed Stetzer, Edward Rommen, George W. Peters, International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, John Hammett, John Piper, Methods, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Phil Parshall, Pluralism, Syncertism
GBC Sermon Audio – June 6 AM, 2010 The New South is growing. “Through urbanization and the vibrant growth of southern cities and towns, the South is becoming a center for innovative, intellectual and cultural growth”, reports Advance the Church. Advance the Church also provided some of the following information. This will greatly impact the [...]
