The Monopoly Mindset - Part 3

Let me give a quick example of a modern day Monopoly Mindset. It comes from a conversation I had with a college ministry director. He was telling of a meeting that had been called to discuss a new danger in America. The danger came from wealthy middle-eastern interests who were financing large projects at universities across America. These interests would offer to build large buildings and equip them, and all they asked was to be able to send some of their own professors to fill some of the new teaching positions that would open up. Beyond their duties as professors these men would also bring over the teachings of Islam and attempt to spread it. That was the danger, the spread of Islam to young, impressionable minds at college campuses. The meeting was to identify this new danger and come up with ways to combat it.

The notion that we need to somehow figure out how to "stop the Muslim invasion" is just strange to me. We have evidence that when seen side-by-side Christianity already beats Islam, even in a culture where Islam holds most of the market. Africa and the Middle East provides dozens of examples of this very thing. So, when faced with this new threat is seems we have two choices. The first is to focus our energy on stopping the invasion by trying to talk to universities and perhaps even use the terrorist card. We can focus on the evils of Islam and try to warn students to stay away from certain professors. We can denounce the movement on the whole and just will people to follow the American way of Christianity. Or, we could focus our energy on showing the truest possible form of Christianity on these college campuses and see the same result in America that we see in the rest of the world. When Christianity competes against other religions it wins... every time. The only time that Christianity begins to lose is when it becomes polluted or convoluted. The message begins to change and the focus begins to blur as we take on the Monopoly Mindset.