It’s often asked, why would we share the Gospel with Muslims? They hate us and want to kill us. My response is, as Christians, it is embedded within our hearts to reach the lost, this is the Great Commission our Lord left with us and the purpose for every believer is to reach those who do not know Jesus Christ.

When sharing the Gospel with anyone there first needs to be a relationship of trust between you. It takes time and effort to build trust. It is one thing to go witness to people and speak to them about the Gospel. That is wonderful and so many times God works through that means, but in particular with Muslims they have so many ideas about Christianity without first building trust, showing them the love of Christ in you and that they have misconceptions about Christians you will never be able to reach them. First, your life has to speak volumes to them. Then you can speak to them openly without an argument ensuing.

When sharing the Gospel with anyone there first needs to be a relationship of trust between you.

Since, many Muslims are serious about their religion in one way or another and they are very curious as to why we would believe in Jesus Christ the way we do you can be sure the conversation will come up even sooner than you expect. It’s very important for you as a believer to study some about Islam so that you can at least bridge the gap between the Christian faith and Islam.

Do some research about how Muslims view Jesus Christ and understand how they will approach you about the Bible. These are the two main issues that I have had brought to me almost every time when sharing the Gospel with a Muslim.

They will say, you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Quran says it is a sin to say he is the Son of God. You can approach this in various ways, you can say, “what does it mean for Jesus to be the Son of God?” Or you can say, “Jesus was created by God in the womb of Mary just as Adam was created from the dust of the earth.” Another idea is to say, “the Quran teaches us that Jesus is the Messiah and that he has the titles Word of God and Spirit of God. This is very interesting for me that no other prophet has such titles that identify him so closely with God.” Instead of arguing with them right away just try to clarify what they mean. Typically, the Muslim means that you cannot say that God had a physical relationship with Mary. This is true, he did not and he is not the Son of God in that sense at all.

 It’s very important for you as a believer to study some about Islam so that you can at least bridge the gap between the Christian faith and Islam.

The next objections is that the Bible is perverted and that there are so many translations now and which one is the word of God. First, clarify what they mean by that by asking questions. After that ask them these two things;

1. The Quran tells Mohammad to ask the People of the Book before him if what it is saying is correct. It also tells Muslims to believe all the prophets before Mohammad and to believe in the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel. At Mohammad’s time the Bible we have now is the exact same Bible, it has not changed at all.
2. If God cannot preserve the Bible then how can we trust that he can preserve the Quran?

The main point in answering these questions is not to win an argument. The point is to get them to take some kind of action, give them a gift and present it as a precious gift of a New Testament in their own language or if you can’t find that in English. Tell them it is your most precious possession and you want them to have access to reading it. Or make a time for them to watch the Jesus movie with you. In everything you do in your relationship with your Muslim friend make sure you are praying over him/her and over every conversation.