"The Muslim Faith, A Formidable Foe"
Roland Mohsen of Paris, France

Introduction:  I would like first of all, to express my sincere gratefulness to the elders of the Cold Harbor Road Church of Christ, Mechanicsville, VA, for inviting me to this lectureship and for the subject that was assigned to me to speak on "The Muslim Faith: A Formidable Foe."  The Cold Harbor congregation has been our faithful co-laborer in the French world for the past several years.

I am particularly thrilled to speak on this subject because of my French Muslim background.  My mother was French born and my father was born in Yemen, Arabia.  If you do not know where it is located, it is the country directly south of Saudi Arabia.  It is the country where the Queen of Sheba came from mentioned in the Bible.

Most married couples from different cultural backgrounds will have perhaps more problems than couples of the same country and culture.  My parents had lots of difficulties in their married life, because of culture differences, their way of thinking, understanding each other, and the way of doing things.  I strongly believe that the only possible way for this type of marriage to work is that both of them are in Christ.

Before my father could ever think about marrying my mother, he first had to sign a paper for the Catholic Church that he would not object that all the children born of their marriage would be raised Catholics.  My mother had to promise that she would do everything in her power to bring my father to become a Catholic.  There was no danger of either one converting the other. Neither one of them really practiced their religion.  As far as religion was concerned for my father, the only thing he did was to abstain from eating pork.  As far as my mother...(to read more, click here).

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