Being a witness for Jesus in Muslim contexts is often difficult, complicated, and even discouraging.
He published articles in the Journal of Asian Mission and Missiology and was a contributing author in Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities (William Carey Library)..
Williams (PhD, Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines) served in ministry to Muslims for twenty years (1990-2010) with SIM in the Philippines.
Mark S.
He is the author of over sixty missiological publications, including Christianity and Animism in Melanesia (William Carey Library).
He is a translation and anthropology consultant with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and The Seed Company.
About author(s): Kenneth Nehrbass (PhD, Biola University) teaches intercultural studies at Biola University and formerly taught at Belhaven University.
They ponder: How can we further remove obstacles to following Jesus? How do we navigate the fine lines between Muslim cultures and Muslim religious ideas? What cultural and social aspects of Muslim Life could cross-cultural workers adopt when living among Muslims? Here they share some of their victories and challenges, encouraging Christian workers to press ahead on paths of outreach to Muslims that are fitting for the twenty-first century context.
While all the contributors to this book have been inspired by Parshall\'s Life and work, some of them believe that Parshall\'s methods of contextualization could have been taken even further.
In this volume, the only edited work dedicated to exploring Phil Parshall\'s legacy, seven respected missiologists interact with those ideas.
During his tenure as a missionary leader, Parshall authored a dozen books that helped shape current missiological perspectives about Muslim outreach. "Brother Phil" and his wife, Julie, were missionaries in Bangladesh for more than twenty years and later worked among Muslims in the Philippines.
Over the past forty years, Phil Parshall, a leading authority on Muslim outreach, has demonstrated that making friends with Muslims-whether in the West or abroad-is where our witness usually begins.
Being a witness for Jesus in Muslim contexts is often difficult, complicated, and even discouraging