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Pod #87 Escaping the Insider Movement

I was praying in the mosque and everyone thought I was a Muslim 

Today on the podcast, my guest shares with us how he got fully involved in the Insider Movement, how he got out of it, and what he thinks about it now. It’s a fascinating story of discovering how one can be contextualized, without becoming Islamic. 

The controversy was that we thought we can use or redeem almost anything in Islam. I went fully into this approach. My wife was wearing full Islamic dress; I would wear traditional dress as well. I would pray in the mosque. I would go to the mosque and pray. I didn’t pray Islamic prayers; I would pray Christian prayers, but I would pray in the mosque. My neighbors functionally thought this guy was just a Western convert to Islam.

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Timeline

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:00 Keith Green and the unreached
• 07:50 The logic of the Insider Movement
• 14:11 Going fully into the Insider Movement
• 18:06 Contextualizing without compromising
• 21:45 What it’s like to live under the law
• 28:10 What it was like for his wife
• 35:10 The tension of not sharing the same calling 
• 41:30 My wife said, “I’m done. I’m out.”
•  47:28 Advice for struggling workers