By Roy Oksnevad Discipleship doesn’t happen by osmosis. Learning how to live the Christian life must be done in community. What typically happens is the Muslim-background-believer (MBB) discovers a new Christian fellowship and quickly falls in love with the other believers. But after they get to Continue Reading
Discipleship and Two Faces
By Roy Oksnevad Eighteen years ago Roland Müller’s book[1] introduced me to the concept of two faces in discipleship of MBBs. The concept of two faces is that one face is the MBB’s Christian faith, and the other is how the MBB relates to their Islamic family and community. Müller, from his years of Continue Reading
Discipleship in a Muslim Context
By Roy Oksnevad On my bookshelf I have a number of books on discipleship. It is interesting that some of these books talk about discipleship as creating a discipleship-making movement through evangelism. The focus of discipleship is how to sustain a movement to Christ (evangelism) as if that is the Continue Reading
Context of Discipleship
By Roy Oksnevad Matthew 28:18-20 admonishes us to go and make disciples of all nations. Often in Muslim ministry our desire is just to see Muslims come to Christ; we aren’t considering discipleship. So often the Western understanding of discipleship is knowledge-based. The dictum is right theology Continue Reading
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