Church Planting Among Muslims

Appoaches to the evangelization of Muslims. Terry, John Mark. 1996.

Describes five approaches: confrontational, traditional evangelical, institutional, dialogical, and contextualization. Gives pointers to the best type of approach.

Is planting churches in the Muslim world "Mission Impossible?" Brown, Dan. 1997. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Excellent article on the need for intentional focused effort in church planting and the phases of church planting.

The gospel for shame cultures. Thomas, Bruce. 1994. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Highlights the need for a different approach than the traditional western evangelical emphasis on guilt and justification in sharing the gospel with Muslims.

The pros and cons of Islamicized contextualization. Eenigburg, Don. 1997.

Danger! New directions in contextualization. Parshall, Phil. 1998.

Parshall, an outspoken promoter of contextualization in reaching Muslims, warns about what he perceives as recent examples of extreme contextualization, which becomes syncretism.

The hermeneutical crisis in Muslim evangelization. Schlorff, Samuel.

Questions use of Qur'an by Christians as an apologetic "bridge" in witnessing.

Muslim evangelism: Mobilizing the national church. Parshall, Phil. 2001.