Introducing our ministry
KONINKRYKSFOKUS - KINGDOM FOCUS
KoFie-project
For that purpose we mainly use one Facebook Page Conversation with Muslims, where we share the Gospel specifically to Muslims, and where we very effectively make use of advertisements to "Boost" specific posts aimed at Muslims in selected Muslim dominated countries. We choose specific words and languages that will catch the interests of Muslims about their religion and the fundamentals of their faith.
Futher we use many other Facebook Pages and Groups in networking with our main aim.
Further we make use of a Network of WhatsApp Groups where most of our follow up of comments or answering of Questions happen. (See underneath)
1.WHY DO WE ALSO FOCUS ON MUSLIMS?
We focus on everybody that we can reach on Social Media. In our own country and community, but more specifically on those people that are least reached with the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
Yes, thats why one of the many people groups that we focus on in our ministry is Muslims. Why?
★1) Numbers: Fact is that 1,8 Billion people adhere to Islam worldwide – 1 out of every 4 people.
★2) The Great Commission: That remain the most important task of the Church: To share the Gospel to all nations. Muslims are part of the unreached people block – as they are “unreached” with the Gospel to a great extend.
★3) Although few Christians have a real interest in Muslims and Islam Evangelism, Islam is very much interested in us - in you and me! They have their plan for the whole world and Islam has an increasing influence on world events. Many Christians are ignorant about the Islam religion, believe the lie that Islam is a religion of peace and think it is just another choice in serving the Lord.
★4) Why we also focus on Muslims? Lastly and most importantly - for the Glory and honour of God. Not only does Islam put their Allah in the place of Almighty God but they fully rejects the deity of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Gospel according to the Bible.
2.HOW TO APPROACH MUSLIMS EFFECTIVELY WITH THE GOSPEL.
Certain basic facts that Christians need to understand:
★How Muslims see themselves: The average Muslim is proud of the fact that they are very “religious” and they don't need our message at all. They are actually very sure that they are the final true last revelation from God (they call him Allah); they believe that their prophet Muhammad was the final prophet sent by God and that their book, the Quran, is the final word and message from God to the world.
★Further Islam is more than a Religion. It is strongly interwoven with their political and cultural worldview.
★A Reality to consider: Muslim dominated countries mostly have laws that prohibit Christians to freely share the Gospel to Muslims and it is thus dangerous for Christians to do.
★Further, it is dangerous for Muslims to leave their religion (Apostate) – although some Muslim countries have religious freedom in their constitution, in reality Muslims that convert to Christianity are usually persecuted afterwards by their family and the community - they can be killed for that as many experienced already.
★Generally the best method for a Christian to reach out to Muslims is to build a friendship relation with somebody and hopefully get an opportunity somewhere to share their faith. Unfortunately this is very challenging and time consuming and it is nearly impossible to win Muslims in large numbers when thinking about the millions that will never get such an opportunity to ever meet a Christian.
★Fortunately, with the availability of Social Media today, one can easily meet many Muslims by this way and start conversations with Muslim all over the world. That is what we focussed on doing!
3. WHAT (NOT) TO SHARE IN A CONVERSATION WITH MUSLIMS:
It won’t help to say anything negatively about Islam that will offend and hurt their feelings. That will just left them more hardened than before?
Most Muslims are further very indoctrinated against Christians and the ‘corrupted’ Bible and will immediately use the typical #Parrot_Muslim claims and phrases that they learned from childhood in any debate with them. Very few will be open to really listen to your points in a debate, but rather immediately shock you with one of their claims.
4.THE MAIN FOCUS OF OUR APPROACH.
★Our main approach with our posts to Muslims on Facebook is rather not to get involved in a debate, but rather to ask questions that will make them think and hopefully start to doubt the fundamentals of their faith – and open up to search for the real truth.
★Three main topics to get their attention are definitely...
(1) to question the truth about their Book,
(2) to challenge their man: their prophet Muhammad and
(3) to point out the flaws in their history, like the fact that the city of Mecca was not found on any map during the time of Muhammad and the description of the city in the Quran does not match with reality.
★We therefore focus on selected material that questioned those three topics and share the many contradictions according to latest available researched information.
★At the same time we continuously share powerful testimonies of Ex-Muslims about their own road to see the light.
★Further we definitely share the truth of the Gospel all the time in a sensitive way.
★Finally… Pray, Pray, Pray! The Holy Spirit is the only One that can open minds and hearts.
★Are there any success? The Good News is… It happens all the time. Many Muslims leave Islam lately, especially during the last few decades. All the Glory to God.
5.THE MAIN ISSUES ABOUT THE ‘BOOKS’ (BIBLE AND QURAN)
The Standard Islamic Narrative is that it is timeless and unchangeable. The Quran claims about itself that it is a perfect and incorruptible revelation of God to man, that it is so important that it has existed eternally on tablets in heaven and is faultlessly and perfectly preserved by Allah as its guardian since existence.
* The Quran about the Bible:
The Quran mentioned and accepted ‘our’ holy books as the Word of God: the Torah or the Law, revealed to Musa (or Moses), the Zabur or the Psalms, revealed to Dawud (David) and the Injil or the Gospel, revealed to Isa (Jesus) – these books that are exactly the same as our Bible contents. But our Bible differs in many important aspects with their Quran and traditions (the Hadith, an important additional part of their total belief system).
* The Quranic Dilemma:
This fact that the Quran accepted the Bible on the one hand, but Islam rejected it on the other hand – this we call the “Quran Dilemma".
* One of the Most Important Differences:
It is about the person of Jesus Christ (whom they call Isa) – they reject His divine nature, that He is the son of God or even God Himself. And most important, that He died on the cross and being resurrected again.
* The answer every Muslim gives for that “dilemma”:
That our Bible was corrupted since the origin of the Quran, but this is never mentioned in the Quran itself and nobody can ever explain when, who and where this corruption took place. Further it is proofed historically that the Bible from the time of Muhammad, during the 7th century, is the exact book that we still use today.
6.A REPORT OF OUR OUTREACH TO MUSLIMS ON FACEBOOK:
Through time we learned a lot about the type of posts that is most effective to get the interest of Muslims. In the past the number of people that we reached by our most successful posts was in the order of 50-100 thousand.
One Report of Post results that we can only call unexpectedly amazing.
THE DETAIL OF THREE SUCH POSTS...
1) Post number one is a Pdf version of the Book by Ibn Warraq: "Why I am not a Muslim"
- It reached 224,254 People with a Boost cost of R360.
- Number of people engaged: 51 making comments;
- People that shared it further: 112
- Number of Likes: 9,900 (9,9K) people that gave a thumps up
- The number of people reached with this post: 636,946
- Total Post engagement of 12,588
- Number of Likes: 4,400
- Number of comments: 241;
- Number of shares: 55
- The Total number of impressions (people that looked more than once): 1,102,034.
3) The Third post was a follow up of the previous one with the same type of content - but with information of 4 more factual proofs.
This results for this post reached even many more people.
- The number of people reached with this post: 1,875,112
- Post engagement of 74,868
- Number of Likes: 59,000
- Number of comments: 385
- Number of shares: 309
- The total number of impressions was outside the range of Facebook's report, but if calculated according to the ration of the precious post could easily be over 3 million people.
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