JC:  Anything else?

EC:  Yeah one of the things we’ll have to touch on we’re doing with the Future of Truth Conference is the cultural war that’s being raged in the United States.  And we see it politically, I think it’s fairly clear in this campaign.  But it’s deeper than that.  The cultural war, we just came out of the Cold War, my wife’s from the Czech Republic as she herself saw when she was pulled in the office and told you know you cannot be what you desire to be because your father’s a pastor hence we were going to force you to work in a factory.  She understood that, but when the wall fell down in the Czech Republic, the Velvet Revolution occurred in 1989, she was free. 

Now we find a different type of war, it’s not ideology, it’s theology.  It’s not a Cold War, it’s a Confessional War.  This war is one in which the battle lines are not raged between a wall, but indeed we’re not sure where the landscape is many times, it’s so fluid.  This is one we can’t lose.  But it’s one in which Americans have to realize the terror war will never become a nuisance.  It is something that will always be on the front lines.  And Christians in particular have to realize this is not merely or primarily a political battle, it’s a spiritual one.  And one that will only be won as we send our missionaries out there with people with faith in Christ.  

And realize that we are not called to be a 21^st century church.  We’re called to be a first century church.  And we’re called to be one that’s not convenient, but costly.  That means sending out our children, our loved ones, going to places they’ve never been and reaching people they’ve never met, risking their lives and I’m not sure if we in America are really used to that.  But we need to be.  We see it across the world.  We see it in China and in other places where Christians lose their lives everyday and are imprisoned everyday.  And Americans don’t need to be behind them, they need to be beside them.

Resources – Unveiling Islam or More Than a Prophet – theological and apologetic resources on how to defend your faith.  We also recommend books like answering Islam by Norman Geisler and Abduh Saleb. My brother and I have also written resources – How to Win a Muslim Woman to Christ: Out of the crescent shadows – that help out.

Of course, Ravi Zacharias has a book out in Islam and Abduh Saleb has others in there so we would recommend sources that do not over emphasize the similarities within the religion as if they are both holding hand in hand into the one God but recommend resources that honestly give the idea of understanding between the differences of the religions. Such as Ravi Zacharias and me myself and my brother and Norman Geisler do in this book.