Amazing Grace

November 20, 2019

how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me

Muslims are broken people—lost in shame, darkness, pain, heartbreak, rejection, striving, hopelessness, abuse, and emptiness, just to name a few. We remember that without Christ we are the same—lost and broken sinners. Without the atonement of Jesus, there is no hope. The power of Christ’s blood brings salvation, but also more than salvation.

Muslims believe they have salvation yet they are still empty inside. There is still something missing. So, the issue of believing you are “saved” is not enough. There is something more that Christ brings that no other religion can.

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“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

— John 10:10

It is the abundant life. The abundance of knowing Christ takes us beyond the door of salvation and into an endless ocean of hope, purpose, power, love and joy. Until Jesus encounters us, we continue to strive for these things that only the true God can give. Until Jesus shines the light of His truth on our dark minds we remain bound and in darkness.

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“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God…”

— Ephesians 4:17-18

This passage in Ephesians is a great way to pray, line by line, for Muslims. Ask the Lord to shine His light over their dark thinking—like the stories we share on our Stories page where many report that they knew there must be something more and they desired the truth. We pray for this. We pray that God would enlighten their hearts and minds to the truth (Ephesians 1:17-19).

Join the story by praying for us that we would reach many more Muslims for Christ in the difficult access regions of the Middle East. You can get involved by becoming a partner today, sowing into these regions of the earth with us ‘Until Jesus.’ We are thankful for your partnership.

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Learn more about #UNTILJESUS by reading on our Stories page the real-life testimonies of Muslims who have come to Christ.

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We believe the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are inspired by God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct. (2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 Peter 1:21)

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent who has revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 3:22)

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father where He intercedes for us, in His present rule as Head of the Church, and in His personal return in power and glory. (Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:31)

We believe in the creation of mankind in God’s image, and the fall of man, resulting in universal guilt and total depravity; and the necessity, therefore, of redemption and restoration; that all men and women are lost spiritually and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for regeneration by the Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 2:17)

We believe salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life. (Luke 24:47, John 3:3)

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life in the presence of our Lord, and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. (Matthew 25:46, Mark 9:43-48)

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the Church, which has the duty to preach the Gospel to every person. (Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 2:22)

We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of teaching, preaching, the prophetic, the apostolic, and evangelism. (Ephesians 4:11-13)

We believe in upholding the ordinances of the church of water baptism and holy communion.

The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures. All who repent and believe in Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized. Thus, they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. (Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:16, Acts 10:47,48, Romans 6:4)

The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements—bread and the fruit of the vine—, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4), a memorial of His suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers “till He comes!”