Arabic Speaking Bible Study Resources

Arabic Speaking Bible Study Resources

BY BARRY BAGGOTT | DIRECTOR OF FRENCH WORLD OUTREACH

Perhaps you have World Bible School Students, neighbors, or friends at your workplace who are Muslim. Are you aware of an online tool to help you in your efforts to share the Gospel
with them?

The Crieve Hall church of Christ in Nashville, Tennessee has a ministry called French World Outreach which is directed by missionary Barry Baggott (pictured left). Because of the extensive overlap between the French-speaking world and the Muslim world, FWO created a website specifically for Muslims, and it is now available not only in French, but in English and Arabic. DescenduVersNous.com (French speakers) RevealedToUs.com (English speakers) maunzil.com (Arabic speakers)

The name is taken from a verse in the Qur’an that speaks of the revelations given by Allah before the time of Muhammad and which commands Muslims to give the same respect to these revelations that they give to the Qur’an.

The Qur’an 2:136 says: “Say, ‘We believe in God and what was revealed to us; and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants, and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the (other) prophets by their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them. It is to Him that we surrender ourselves.” RevealedToUs.com and its parallel sites in French and Arabic explain and defend the truth of the Gospel, that which God “revealed to us,”, in a respectful way that takes account of some of the points on which Muslims are often particularly sensitive.

About a hundred articles deal with five different themes:

1. The trustworthiness of the Bible Muslims are usually taught that it has been corrupted
2. The reality and the meaning of the death of Jesus, including the plan of salvation – Muslims believe that it only appeared that Jesus was crucified
3. The nature of God and the relationship between God and Jesus – with special attention to the phrase, “Son of God”
4. The various characters of the Bible who are also mentioned in the Qur’an – and whose stories Muslims do not generally know
5. The Life of Isaa, al-Masih – Jesus, the Messiah.

Each article can be read or listened to online or downloaded as a PDF or audio file to be studied offline or shared with others. The last two series are not yet available in Arabic, but the translation work is in progress. Since a lot of material is now available in both English and

Arabic and more continues to be translated, it might be of interest to some Arabic-speaking World Bible School Students to read articles on the English site and then compare them with the Arabic site to see how well they are understanding what they read in English. It would help them both with their language study and their grasp of the spiritual concepts they learn as they go through the WBS courses.

The articles can also be downloaded and printed for free to be used in teaching Postal Students, or they can be ordered in brochure form in either French or English at www.frenchworldoutreach.org.