Thursday, May 3, 2012

Miraculous Movements - Muslims Falling in Love with Jesus


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

Jerry Trousdale
(Thomas Nelson)
ISBN: 978-1418547288
March 2012/208 pages/$9.99

The Book That Will Tell You How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus

“This book, these people, and the miraculous stories are for real! We heard, we saw, we went and we have partnered with CityTeam in Africa. This is a paradigm shifting movement of God that anyone and everyone committed to making disciples must read and apply!” -Chip Ingram, Senior Pastor, Venture Christian Church

Miraculous Movements recounts an amazing changetaking place within Muslim communities where the truth of Jesus Christ is turning around the lives of many thousands of Muslims. This close look at what the Lord is doing to spread the gospel highlights the key scriptural principles that help Christian reach out in love to share the gospel in their own community and around the world. Over the past 6 years, 600,000 new believers have become rapidly reproducing disciples and have started 18,000 new churches.

Find out how to more effectively share the gospel through touching stories of how God is transforming Muslim hearts in Africa

Discover ways to reach out to communities of nonbelievers with love and grace

Learn the key scriptural principles for successful, God-inspired discipleship



MY THOUGHTS:
This is an incredible book. It will refresh your faith, encourage you, amaze you, inspire you, instruct you, and convict you. Most of all, it will cause you to realize anew that God is at work and transforming the hearts and lives of a people whom many of us as Christians often have viewed as unreachable. Testimonies of former Muslims fill the pages as they tell of the spiritual emptiness and dissatisfaction that simmer beneath the surface of so many within the Muslim community, revealing their experiences, many of them miraculous and supernatural, of coming to Christ. More than just a collection of anecdotes, however, this book provides practical guidelines for effective evangelism and discipleship following the model set forth by Jesus as He invested in the disciples. I highly recommend it!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jerry Trousdale is the Director of International Ministry for Cityteam International. He has been a missionary among a Muslim people group in Africa and has pastored two mission-sending churches that launched ministries which have planted thousands of churches. He co-founded Final Command Ministries to facilitate missions to some of the least-reached people groups in West and Central Africa. In 2005 he became part of Cityteam, which provides training in obedience-based discipleship models to thousands of ministries. The ministry has planted more than 6,000 Muslim background churches. Jerry is a former Director of Marketing for Thomas Nelson Publishers and host of LifeTalk, a Nashville drive time radio show. Jerry graduated from David Lipscomb University with a B.A. in Communications, Abilene Christian University with a M.A in Missiology, and has a year towards his doctorate through Fuller Seminary.

ABOUT CITYTEAM INTERNATIONAL:
Founded in 1957 in San Jose, California, Cityteam touches the lives of more than 500,000 people yearly with their compassion ministries for the poor and homeless in the U.S. Cityteam is a ministry called to love and obey God, love their neighbors and multiply disciple makers who repeat the process among their friends and family. Cityteam is an organization that is fully committed to God’s commandment to love and care for individuals and families through their compassion ministries and the Great Commission to disciple the nations. They are touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of those in need around the corner and around the world with the hope that real change is possible through the power of Jesus. For more information, visit www.cityteam.org and www.miraculousmovements.com.

Miraculous Movements is available directly from the book's website or from your favorite local or online bookseller.


Join me tomorrow for a Q&A with the author, Jerry Trousdale!


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson & the Blythe Daniel Agency as part of their Blogger Review program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”


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Anonymous said...

VERY interesting! I taught at a private Muslim school last year. To say I faced challenges because I was open about my faith is an understatement. I will never forget the people I worked with and the students I taught. Though I changed to a public school this year, I'll never stop praying for them.