This Week's Message

CULTS & COUNTERFEITS: ISLAM

Islam honors Jesus as a great prophet, but Jesus never asked to simply be admired. He asked a question that still challenges every one of us today: “Who do you say I am?”

This week in Cults & Counterfeits, we examined what Islam teaches about Jesus and put those beliefs to the Cross Test: Is the cross real, finished, and enough?

While Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet, Scripture reveals Him as much more. A prophet speaks for God, but Jesus spoke as God. His identity as the Son of God isn't about biology; it's about who He is. And at the center of the Christian faith stands the cross, where Jesus accomplished what we could never accomplish on our own.

“A gospel without a cross isn't good news. It's just good advice.”

Without the cross, salvation becomes a question of whether we've done enough. But through Jesus, we can have confidence in what He has already finished. On the scales, you can only hope. At the cross, you can know.

The challenge is to know what we believe and why, while approaching those who believe differently with love and truth. Because Jesus didn't come simply to give us another set of religious rules. He came to make a relationship with the Father possible. And the question remains: Who do you say Jesus is?

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