E. Robert Reynolds
Former Evangelist and Teacher, Pakistan; Islamic Historian
Articles by E. Robert Reynolds
Christ's Message for Islam
May 1957
Measured geographically the adherents of Islam reach from the Atlantic on the shores of West Africa to where the waters of the blue Pacific wash the sands of the southern Philippines, and from the steppes of Russian…
Preaching a Christ-Centered Gospel
March 1957
This outline is prepared with the thought of helping national evangelists, particularly, find a simple way of presenting the distinctive truths of the third angel's message, with more emphasis upon Christ than they have perhaps grown accustomed…
Music Is for the Heart
April 1975
THE DIALOG over appropriate music for use in religious services and in the home on Sabbath will probably never end this side of eternity. Two principal views persist: the view of the trained musician, versus the untrained. Both of these are…
The Challenge of Islam (Conclusion)
December 1972
More Chasm Crossing
HIS concluding article of the series presents a few more methods whereby the Seventh-day Adventist evangelist might span the gulf that exists between Islam and Adventism, and might more effectually witness among…
The Challenge of Islam (Part 6)
November 1972
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST evangelist who wishes to cross the chasm that exists between Adventists and Islam must be concerned with the quality of his endeavors. A suitable approach to Muslims---and there are several---will certainly include…
The Challenge of Islam (Part 5)
October 1972
Evangelistic Don'ts
BEFORE my family and I went to Pakistan we learned our first lesson about Adventist evangelism among Muslims from a returned missionary to the Middle East. He and his wife told us that pictures and films of the…
The Challenge of Islam (Part 4)
September 1972
NO APPROACH to soul winning will fit every prospect. Although the only object of the one searching for souls may be to share his faith, what he does may irritate some. Even oral and printed reports may be lifted from their context and cause…
How to Reach the Millions of Islam With the Gospel
February 1960
AS I THINK of the millions of Moslems , among whom I work, the challenge of a greater evangelism possesses me. But I cannot do the task alone. And I am certain that my evangelistic colleagues throughout the Islamic countries have often…
The Challenge of Islam (Part 3)
August 1972
The Two Islams
AS STUDY on my Master's program at our theological seminary neared completion in the spring of 1957, I entered into correspondence with authorities at the University of the Panjab at Lahore about continuing my graduate…
The Challenge of Islam (Part 2)
July 1972
Islamic Sects and Tenets
MODERN Islam is divided into two main groups, the Sunnis and Shiis, 1 and into a number of subgroups too numerous to detail here. This fact will surprise some who think of Islam as one united…
The Challenge of Islam (Part 1)
June 1972
ONE of my first contacts with Islam, as an earliteen son of an Adventist minister-missionary, resulted in my giving Bible studies to a Muslim man. Every week I rode my bicycle across the fields to his house. And every week at the close of…