I have an idea...

It’s not very often that I dream big, but today, after Sunday morning service, I was. So a few weeks back I had the idea that while my class was studying comparative religions and worldviews, perhaps it would be good to have a guest speaker who had converted from a particular religion to Christianity come in and speak as an authority on that topic. So first up was the religion of Islam. With a little asking around I found a gentlemen in Chandler who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and was a staunch Muslim. He converted to Christianity a few years back and he did such a wonderful job in our class. Everyone seemed to really engage with him and enjoy the time that he spoke to us. So up next is finding someone who was of the Jewish faith and has since converted.

But back to my idea…how cool would it be to put on a day and a half event where you had different tracks and each track was a different religion. You could have Islamic, Mormonism, Hinduism, New Age, Atheism, Judaism, etc. and have different speakers talk about their conversion from those religions to Christianity. Also they could talk about how we, as Christians can better evangelize to those of different faiths so that we would be more effective in our relationships and witnessing to them.

I’ve got zero experience in this area, but it seems to me that it has the possibility of generating a lot of interest and could really be eye-opening to the Christian community. We could have some really solid practical application time.

Anyway, just a though for now – I’ll pray about it and if any one out there is reading this by chance – I ask that you pray about it too.