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Muslim Converts to Christianity Are Revitalizing Europe's Fading Christian Churches

Julie Brown Patton : Mar 31, 2017  The Gospel Herald

"European churches have struggled for decades to share the Gospel with modern secular Europeans. They have found Muslim immigrants to be much more open to the message of Christianity." — Matthew Kaemingk, a professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary.

[Gospel Herald] Due to Muslim conversions, faith leaders indicate Christianity now is making a comeback in Europe. (Photo Credit: Reuters via Gospel Herald)

Author Timothy Furnish said it is illegal in many Muslim countries to convert to another religion, so it is safer to convert to Christianity in Europe. Reuters

Due to Muslim conversions, faith leaders indicate Christianity now is making a comeback in Europe.

Many parts of Europe reportedly are becoming more secular, and worship houses are losing congregants in noticeable amounts. An increasing number of Muslims, many of them refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are converting to Christianity in Europe. Local experts said the converts are embracing various Christian denominations, including Protestants, evangelical or Catholic.

"European churches have struggled for decades to share the Gospel with modern secular Europeans," Matthew Kaemingk, a professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Seattle, told Fox News. "They have found Muslim immigrants to be much more open to the message of Christianity."

Kaemingk has researched Christian responses to Muslim immigration in the Netherlands, and has written a book titled "Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear" that will be published this fall. He said secular Europeans rarely sense a deep need for the type of healing and salvation the Church offers.

"Europeans are wealthy, comfortable, healthy, and powerful," Kaemingk said. "In short, they don't think they need God."

Conversely, he said Muslim immigrants are intensely spiritual and are leaving their former religion for a variety of reasons…

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