The Christian Church as a Home for Christ’s Converts from Islam

This article seeks to answer the question, “How far the Christian community is a home for those who turn to Christ from Islam.” For the church or congregation which desires to be, sets out to be, and succeeds in being a home for those converted to Christ from Islam, is in itself a gospel -preaches thereby the best, highest, and most Christlike gospel of all: the gospel that will be most easily understood and most easily loved by those without, and will most powerfully attract them to come in: let alone the fact that precisely such a church will certainly be the one most forward in preaching to non-Christians in the ordinary sense of the word. Therefore, to see our congregations and communities as homes for those who are not yet Christ’s, but for whom Christ is seeking, is our supreme task, our highest ideal, our fairest dream. Only in such nurseries can new-born souls thrive. Only when the soil of Christ’s garden-plots is thus “suitable” to these new plants will they survive the shock of transference from their native soil, and thrive and grow and flower and yield fruit.