If We Acted Like Isa, Would Muslims Love Us More?

If We Acted Like Isa, Would Muslims Love Us More?

This #MOnoLogUE challenges the growing culture of Christian superiority, judgment, and hypocrisy—especially within modern Evangelicalism. 

Through personal encounters with a Sikh in Montreal and a Muslim taxi driver in the UK, the essay shows how non-Christians often understand the heart of Jesus better than many who claim His name. 

It argues that true Christianity is recognized through mercy, humility, and the “sweetness of Christ,” not by political allegiance or religious arrogance. 

The central question is simple: Do people feel like Jesus spoke to them when they meet us?

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Dear Eustace,

Take a look in the mirror.

Every religion has its apostates.
Imagine if our faith were judged by the antics of Indaboski, or even some of the better-known aBOASTates — sorry, apostates — the ones who never stop bragging about the “wealth” delivered to them through their carefully crafted Ponzi schemes.

Now imagine a Muslim saturated with hate toward Christianity because of our aBOASTates. Wouldn’t you consider their anger completely misplaced?

If you obeyed Jesus, you wouldn’t feel this way. I’m not living in a fantasy world.

Let me tell a story — so it doesn’t get lost to memory.

About ten years ago, while visiting Montreal, I went to a laundry (one of my bad habits) somewhere on Sherbrooke Road to drop off my clothes. The gentleman attending to me turned out to be named Singh. He was Sikh — still practicing — but clean-shaven. Naturally, we got talking about religion.

He told me he had cut off his beard and stopped wearing his turban because he was tired of constantly being mistaken for a Muslim. People couldn’t tell the difference, and the pressure was getting to him.

I can’t remember my exact words, but we spoke for about 30 minutes. As I was leaving, he said: “I feel like God visited me today.” (I still get emotional when I think of those words — that was a man searching for affirmation, and the Lord ordained my steps. I had found him on the internet.)

That Christmas (2015), I asked my son to mail him a Bible. And I have no doubt in my mind that the Lord will send the Paraclete to meet him at the point of his spiritual need.

What I remember most clearly is that I deliberately avoided preaching to him. I simply spoke about the “compelling sweetness” of Christ — and why Christianity works for me.

So…

Let us resolve in our hearts to make everyone we speak to think, in their own hearts, “I feel like Jesus spoke to me today.”

Imagine if we all acted or spoke like Isa — the prophet of Islam.
Why would any Muslim not hold us in the highest esteem and want to be like us?

Another story…

A few weeks ago, a Muslim taxi driver — born in the UK — took me on a long ride to Heathrow airport. 

Once again, the conversation drifted toward religion. I told him the same things I’ve just told you. I also explained that Trump is not a Christian, that many Evangelicals are not Christians in any meaningful sense of the word.

He sighed — loudly.

“What’s the matter?” I asked.

He replied, “Finally, I understand! I always wondered how people who claim to follow Jesus could support so much injustice…”

And the fact is, Eustace, you are like most Evangelicals, you think you are superior, or that God has called you to be superior.

It’s that feeling of superiority that makes people reject mercy or empathy for those they consider “inferior,” always demanding justice... 

Think about that for a moment: Immigrants, the plight of young black men in America - on and on....

Mercy for us;
justice for them.

That’s the real problem.

OK… gotta go.
(I think this makes for another good #DearEustace monologue.)

I rest.

Don Kenobi
#MyFrancisEssays
#MercyNotJudgement
#OldManInTheMolue
#LoveThyNeighbour

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