Evangelism
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Evangelism is the practice of attempting to convert people to a religion. The term is used most often in reference to Christianity and Islam, since those two religions mandate that their followers make efforts to recruit as many people as possible into their faith. However, the term may be used for the practice of attempting to convert people to any religion, even if that religion does not specifically require that its followers engage in evangelism. For this reason, there are "evangelists" in Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions, even though those religions are not "evangelical" by nature. The term is sometimes used as a metaphor in a non-religious context as well. - Wikipedia
Evangelism ni macam dakwah in Islam la kalau gitu kan...
FYI tmr 10-12 Apr nights there'll be a Christian Evangelist at the Indoor stadium that's gonna talk about people getting healed after praying. I saw this 'Good News Singapore' poster in facebook. And they didn't mention anything about christianity, but when you visit the website, it mentions about a pastor praying, so I assume it has to be christianity la kan.
And I thought dakwah is like forbidden in sg... Cos I remember last year when we were handling Dakwah Talk II, I went to Darul Arqam to hear about dakwah and we shared with them about what we plan for D'Talk II, we were actually advised not to go ahead with it?! Afraid that IRO/ICA/IRC/I something something people would come down and spot check us what what what. Padahal bukan kita buat apa-apa salah pon. In the end we went ahead anyway and we got support from An-Nahdhah Mosque & MUIS and nothing happened except alhamdulillah the event run well and even though I've yet to personally see the people who attended D'Talk share Islam with non-Muslims, I hope they do so amongst their friends in terms of clearing up doubts why Islam practices certain stuffs or forbids certain stuffs cos that was roughly what we covered during the workshop. Anyone took up Bro Helmy's challenge to do a dakwah video yet? :)