Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus

by Jerry Trousdale

Overview

How do the people most resistant to the transformative power of the gospel come to be its most devoted followers? Miraculous Movement recounts an amazing change taking place within Muslim communities where the truth of Jesus Christ is turning around the lives of many thousands of Muslims from more than twenty people groups. Discover through the sometimes humorous, often sobering, but always enlightening and encouraging true stories how imams, sheikhs, and entire mosques are forsaking Islam and embracing Christ.

This close look at what the Lord is doing to spread the gospel highlights the key scriptural principles that help Christians reach out in love to share the gospel in their own community. The authors outline the principle of service to others that open doors of opportunity to the work of the gospel.

Author Jerry Trousdale works with CityTeam Ministries, an organization dedicated to helping disciples make disciples through CityTeam’s own ministry and through training other ministries in more than thirty countries.

Features includes:

• Outlines important principles on how to share the gospel with non-Christians
• Explains how ordinary people can lead neighbors to Christ in love and humility
• Tells many exciting and encouraging stories of Muslims who have accepted Jesus
• Describes CityTeam’s unique program focused on God’s work through disciple-making movements, a strategy that harnesses the power of disciples making disciples and churches planting churches

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781418547288
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	03/05/2012
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	932,163
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jerry Trousdale is Director of International Ministries for CityTeam Ministries, an organization he joined in 2005.Jerry co-founded Final Command Ministries, an organization dedicated to establishing church planting movements among Muslim people groups.Over the years Jerryhas served as a church planter among Muslims in West Africa, in Christian publishing, and as a pastor in California and Tennessee.

Table of Contents

About the Team and Author 9

Introduction 13

1 Unprecedented! 19

2 Jesus' Counterintuitive Disciple-Making Strategy 33

3 Pray the Lord of the Harvest 47

4 Inside Islam 67

Disillusionment and Discontentment

5 Engaging Lostness 83

6 Discovery Bible Studies and Obedience-Based Discipleship 99

7 Simple Churches, Dramatic Transformation, Rapid Replication 111

8 Dreams, Visions, and Miracles Among Muslims 127

9 "Of Whom the World Is Not Worthy" 141

Learning from Heroes and Heroines of Faith

10 The Hardest People Yield the Greatest Results 155

11 Ordinary People Achieving the Impossible 167

12 Seven Paradigm Shifts 179

13 Getting Started 187

Biblical Practices for Engaging Lostness

Appendix 1 201

Appendix 2 203

Notes 207