Peace Making With Muslims

Speakers on the church circuit can make good money these days going around warning against the so called Muslim threat. Lots of venues open up if you want to criticize Islam.

That there is a radical threat from a small group of Muslims in America is true. But they are very few in number. It is unfortunate that in conversations among Christians these days, there is a tsunami of anxiety about how Muslims are trying to "take over" in America. Never mind that they will remain less than 2% of the population over the next 20 years.

Most Muslims are winsome people who cook great food and try to live upright lives. They don't worship a moon god or think Mohammed is divine. They pray to the God of Abraham. And they think evangelicals and charismatics hate them and want to persecute them.

That's pretty bad. Once again, the American church has gone off mission and defined itself by spreading unjust fear and being known for what it is against, instead of what it is for. What happened to those Jesus values of being a peacemaker and loving "enemies"?

It's time for America to rethink its foreign policy, and for charismatics and evangelicals to get off the fear bus and start talking with Muslims.