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Overview of theOverview of the TTHHIINNKK ModelModel

Trust in the Holy Spirit

Hear the discrepancies & contradictions

Illuminate discrepancies by asking questionsNavigate around barriers

Keep the door open for sharing the Gospel

If you can remember the acrostic THINK, you can more

effectively witness to others.


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THINK Trust the Holy Spirit

Pray for the Holy Spirit to enliven their spirit

and awaken in the possibility that Islam hasat least one self-destroying contradiction.

Trust God for the results.

Take time to relate. Take time to

demonstrate your relationship with God.


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THINK Hear the Discrepancies

Contradictory Beliefs

Understand that Islam claims to build uponthe Old Testament and Gospels, yet

fundamentally rejects what the prophets

and Jesus taught.


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Do you pray five times a day?

THINKIlluminate

Can you tell me if we can knowif someone is not going to getto heaven?

Matt. 5:21-22


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Matthew 8:2 Leper

Matthew 28:9 women at the tomb Matthew 14:33 the disciples Matthew 28:17; Luke 24:52 the disciples after Jesus rose John 9:38 a blind man John 20:28-29 Thomas called him My Lord and My God Matthew 2:2 God sent wise men to worship Jesus, and wise

men today worship him too.

THINKIlluminate with Questions

Their Answer: The Bible is corrupt.

Q: How can Jesus be considered a greatprophet when the Gospels says that Jesusaccepted worship as God?


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THINKIlluminate with Questions

Q: Then what is your principle for determining

what parts of Gods word to disbelieve and

what parts to believe?

Their Answer: Do not know which parts to

believe, so they disregard all the Bible parts

that disagree with the Quran.


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The Quran itself considers the previousrevelations contained in the book to beauthoritative and authentic revelations fromGod (Surah 2:136; 4:163)

The Quran states that None can changeHis word. (Surah 6:115; see also 6:34;10:64)

THINK Illuminate

Q: Do you really believe what the Quransays?


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The Quran states that And intheir footsteps We sent Jesusthe son of Mary, confirming theTorah that had come beforehim; We sent him the gospel:therein was guidance and light.And confirmation of the Torahthat had come before him.(Sura 5:46)

THINK Illuminate

The Gospel: therein was guidance and light


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Why are Christians

commanded in the Quran

to obey the Bible (Sura5:68)?

THINK Illuminate


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Sura 5:68says, "O People of the Book! ye

have no ground to stand upon unless ye

stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and allthe revelation that has come to you from

your Lord."

Jews & Christians: Obey the Bible


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Why is Muhammad instructed

by Allah to consult Christians?

THINK Illuminate


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Sura 10:94 says,But if you (Muhammad)

are in doubt as to what We (Allah) have

revealed to you, ask those who read theBook before you; certainly the truth has

come to you from your Lord, therefore you

should not be of the disputers.

THINK Illuminate

Muhammad: Consult Christians


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THINK Illuminate with Parables

Share the stories Jesus shared.

Jesus was from a Semitic back ground and

his parables speak to the hearts of Muslims.

The prodigal son is a great place to start

talking about Gods love.


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THINK Navigate Around Barriers

Q: If it could be demonstrated that Godsmessage in the Bible, which the Quranclaims was originally from God, has been

preserved, would you want to know about it?

If not, then why not?If so, then what would you do?

The teaching in the Bible today is so fundamentallydifferent from the Quran: crucifixion, resurrection,

Jesus being God, loving even unbelievers, the

Fatherhood of God, that they both cannot be true.


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B.C.-68 A.D. Dead Sea Scrolls containing Torahand the rest of the Old Testament

117-138 A.D. John Rylands (fragment of John) 100-150 A.D. Chester Beatty Papyrii 125-175 A.D. - Bodmer II (p66) 125-175 A.D. p104 (fragment of Matthew) 30 more manuscripts before 300 A.D. Early church writers (from 97/98 A.D. to 200 A.D.)

referred to many verses in the Bible.

The witness today of the Bible scrollspreserved from very early times


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Given who God is, would it make more senseor less sense that we can fully understandGods nature?

We wrestle with the mystery of the Trinity,whereas they worship the unitary Allah. Westruggle with the mystery of the Incarnation,whereas they teach that Jesus was just aprophet. We try to get our minds round themystery of inspiration, whereas they believethat the Quran was simply dictated by God.

Nick Pollard, Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult, p. 92


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Can you see then how a belief in a

Triune God might actually have some

merit?


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THINK Keep the Door Open

Now this verse of the Quran is quite remarkable. If God sentJesus to confirm the Torah (first five books of the Bibles OldTestament), then at least in Jesus time, the Torah that people couldread and Jesus could confirm was the same Torah God sent.

It goes on. Sura 5:47 goes on to say, Let the People of theGospel Judge by what Allah hath revealed Therein.... If the Peopleof the Gospel are to judge by what God has revealed in the Gospel,then how can the Gospel they are to judge by not be the GospelGod told them to judge by?

Sura 5:48 says, To thee (People of the Book) We sent thescripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, andguarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hathrevealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the truth

that hath come to thee....

And in their [the prophets] footsteps we sent Jesus the son ofMary, confirming the Torah that had come before him: we sent

him the gospel; therein was guidance and light. And confirmation

of the Torah that had come before him: a guidance and an

admonition to those who fear Allah

Sura 5:46 - A Remarkable Verse in the Quran


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THINK Opening the Door

Can I share with you what God has spokenabout having a relationship with Him throughJesus?

Regardless of whether Muslim imams likethe fundamental differences between theBible and the Quran, two points emerge:

The Quran shows the Torah and gospels

were preserved from Jesus time up toMohammeds

Bible scrolls preserved in museums todaywere written way before Mohammeds

time


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THINK Keep the Door Open tothe Gospel

Even before Jesus was born, God

revealed in the scriptures that He is a

Father. We have the opportunity tobecome children of God, by adoption.

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