Michigan Camp Meeting 2017

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Islam & Christianity

Daniel Scarone

Understanding Similarities & Differences- Part 1

Understanding Similarities & Differences- Part 2

Understanding Similarities & Differences- Part 3

Understanding Similarities & Differences- Part 4

Understanding Similarities & Differences- Part 5

Father in heaven, be with us in this moment.

We are going to be dealing with this sensitive topic for our Western society and help us to work out because Father we want to fulfill your mission and be with us in this topic in Jesus' name.

Let me, probably we are going to be using some of biblical references in the future and when we were doing some kind of comparison in between the Quran and the Bible.

And until today, what we were doing is a kind of, what I would say, introduction, general introduction, about this topic.

But I am not away from the eyes of the mission that we need to fulfill.

And even though it is dangerous, I will share today something regarding the topic of the mission from the beginning in order that you might have an idea how we might be able to be working with this kind of situation.

Probably tomorrow and Friday in the morning I'm going to be sharing with you several points of view of technicians or technical staff regarding ideas regarding the mission because it's risky by the way.

If you are going to be dealing with the Muslim society in general as a Christian, you need to be very careful, because you are in an enemy territory, land, and your life is at stake.

So in several places, by the way, we were with that kind of stuff.

Let me share with you something that you are going to find in your Bibles in Matthew 28.

The Bible says, "...go ye therefore and teach all nations..." says verse 19.

"...all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

There is a command and there is a promise together with the command.

It's not only the command to go and teach, but also it's a promise that heaven is going to be with us.

But we need to be very alert and very sensitive Because sometimes these people are violent.

And we were exploring in the presentation of yesterday and probably today, I'm going to repeat, because you are going to find in the Quran and in the Hadiths that violence is part of the main teaching of them.

Because the jihad is the way in which they are going to pursue the target.

The jihad for them is our perception of this.

This go to the world, that is the way in which they are performing jihad.

Because this is the way in which they get submission from the people, You understand what I'm saying?

I'm going to give you a hint today, and I'm going to give you a description of something that happened not in Africa or the Middle East or in Indonesia, probably Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country in the world.

And by the way, We have here in Michigan an Indonesian church.

And I was surprised when I've been with them, when they perform the prayers, you are trying to catch up some words sometimes.

And you know how the Indonesian call God?

So we need to be very sensitive about that, how we are going to be dealing with this.

Because sometimes in certain languages that were colonized with a Muslim background, the name of the Lord has been distorted or adapted with the Muslim background, you know.

But we are going to be talking about today, and you are going to get an idea about the topic.

But mission is something that we need to perform, but we need to be careful and sensitive according to the needs of the mission that we need to fulfill.

I do remember 1 incident that happened when I was teaching theology in Colombia several years ago, and some of the students were sent to an area in the suburban neighborhoods of Medellin.

I've been working in Colombia in the times of Pablo Escobar Gaviria.

I don't know if this is ringing a bell in your ears.

He was kind of a couple of a mafia of the narco mafia in Colombia, probably the king of that in that country.

He sometimes entered into the cartels of...

Cartel is the institution that he was ruling.

And there were areas in the city in which you see almost beautiful towers, buildings.

And all of them were built with the money of the drugs.

There were some people looking for how to escape from that.

And I remember once with my wife, there was a lady that come to our institution and request Bible studies at home.

So with Lira we went and we enter in that place and in a 9 level of a beautiful building we enter into a house with a luxury that I never seen in any other place.

And I say to Lira, well, we are entering here in a very delicate situation.

But the wife was very transparent with us.

They want to take out the daughter, and they send the daughter into another college in South America, in another country.

And of course, when they went there, the treasurer approached me and said, Daniel, who is these people?

The treasurer come to me and said, who is Daniel, these people?

Because I told them from the beginning, and you know, I was, when you are telling about money, and they say, how much is a year?

And you say, well, it's about, and I was bubbling the words, about $10, 000.

And they put the $10, 000 over the table.

And I am beginning to describe what I saw.

And he said, I guess I have the same suspicious mind of you.

Okay, 1 day, Saturday, our students entered into 1 of those neighborhoods and a couple of guerrillas stop them.

You know, in a suburban area when you see just casual, well-dressed student, young, with a Bible in the hand, very well combed, very well dressed, you know, And some of our students even used a little bit of perfume, because they are in the time in which they use that kind of things.

And they began to explain what they were doing.

Next time we see you here, we are going to kill you.

So next Friday night, they were in tension because Sabbath changed the perception.

They were going to fulfill the mission or not.

So even they tell me that when they went to the restroom, they said, well, probably this is maybe the last time we are going to visit the restroom because we don't know if tomorrow we are going to be alive.

That was the kind of reflection in which they were.

And we were in a discussion with 1 of the leading professors.

And he said, look, pastor, here in Colombia, we don't care about that.

If somebody is going to be killed, we are going to send another missionary.

The parents that are sending the kids here, they share your philosophy?

And you know, there were, it was almost public because we were in the Vespers, the Vespers finished, and we were talking to each other, and there were a lot of theological students that came up and surrounded them, because in my philosophy, the Bible very clearly says that when you enter into a place and you are not welcome, what Jesus says.

So that text, that text was like a Vatican, a Pope text coming, you know, to the...

So after the discussion finished, the students came, Pastor, could you give me the text, please?

Could you share with me the text, you know?

How we are going to deal with places in which when we are going in, our life is in danger?

Let me put it here, and this is from the afternoon.

So this is 1, and probably I say tomorrow and Friday, we are going to be dealing with that.

Suppose that this is the place that you want, and your charge and safe place is here, and you want to fulfill Matthew, Matthew's commandment, the command of mission.

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