Joining The Family: The Book

Joining the Family: The Book

Welcoming Christ's followers of Muslim background into his community.

Today growing numbers of Muslims are choosing to follow Jesus Christ. They want to join Christ's community and we need to understand their needs, care for them, help them grow in Christ, but also be open to learn from them. This book is the ideal resource to equip your church to meet this need.

It may be read alongside the Joining the Family video discussion course, or separately. For more information visit: www.joiningthefamily.org

Joining the Family is part of a trio of resources including Friendship First & Come Follow Me. You can find details of these resources here

Contents

Foreword by Colin Chapman

Chapter 1 Why this book?

Chapter 2 Birth community

Chapter 3 Birth identity to new identity in Christ

Chapter 4 Christ's community

Chapter 5 Being 'close family' to your friend

Chapter 6 Going deeper in the friendship

Chapter 7 Growing in Christ

Chapter 8 Life structure

Chapter 9 Continuing relationship with birth community

Chapter 10 Especially for church leaders

Chapter 11 Welcoming asylum seekers in the Church

Chapter 12 The long journey home

George Verwer, Founder of Operation Mobilisation.

“I am excited about this book, but its 50 years late. Ever since coming to the UK

over 50 years ago I have been urging people to show the Love of Jesus and that

must be whether they come to know him or not. We are paying a heavy price for

our alienation, prejudice and lack of action. Now in London alone we have about

one million Muslims. What a huge joy to know that some are coming to Jesus and

we must go the extra mile to love them, encourage them and work with them in

any way possible. This important amazing book can help us do just that. Please

don’t just read it, but get copies to give to others.”

Greg Livingstone, Founder of Frontiers.

“Tim and Rachel Green have lived years in Muslim countries. His Ph.D. addresses

the vital issues of identity for those who have been rejected by their biological

families who hunger for what our Heavenly Father intends Christ’s family to be

for them. Roxy is one of those precious jewels whom Christ Jesus adopted, who

herself has gone through the crucible of rejection by her clan but eventually found

a family among Christ’s disciples in Britain.

Reading it brought me hope that herein is vital guidance which Christians in the

West need who have longed to know how to keep connected with and serve

Muslim background Christians who desperately need to be adopted into and

nurtured by Christ’s family.

Spend time in the “points to ponder”, and interact with like-minded welcomers

of those who pay the terrible price of ‘betraying their families’ by entering Christ’s

family.

Admittedly, it is not often that I, as a veteran focused on the rescue mission of

Muslims for over fifty years, read a book that takes me into further understanding

of what it means to ‘make disciples’ (among Muslims). Joining the Family did just

that. It generates two wishes: One, that it will be absorbed by God’s people who

are motivated to effectively love their brethren cast out of their Muslim families

and two...that this book would have been produced and widely distributed

decades ago!”

Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe’s and Director of Proclamation Trust

“This excellent book is just what the church needs to help us catch up with the

remarkable work God is doing in bringing people from Muslim backgrounds to

Christ and to equip us to play our part in helping them grow with us as fellow

members of his family.”