I Grew Up a Fervent Evangelist for Islam. Now I'm Living Out the Book of Acts.
I grew up in a Muslim family on the coast of Kenya. My father served as an Imam, and I was one of the muezzins (Muslims who call others to pray five times a day) at a local mosque. The only school I ever attended existed to educate young men in the ways of Islam and to help them grow as Muslims. I was being trained to defend the Muslim faith and to share it with others. As a young man, I became one of the best and most well-known evangelists for Islam in my region. Early in life, my father had taught me to hate Christians and even to beat them if necessary. I was trained to believe that Chris...