Nabeel Qureshi is probably a name that you haven't heard but you should. Qureshi, author of the book Looking for Allah; Finding Jesus, just died at 34 from cancer after having a more impactful life than many of us who live twice as long.
Born a Muslim, his father was an officer in the U.S. Navy. As he got older, Nabeel began to recognize a growing dissonance between the public face of Islam and its historical and present practices. He began to sincerely look for Allah to deepen his faith but, as the title of his book says, found Jesus instead. The book is excellent and details his journey.
Qureshi got his undergraduate degree from Biola University and Master's degrees from Duke and Oxford. He was working on his doctorate at Oxford at the time of his death. Nabeel became part of the Ravi Zacharias ministry and quickly became known as a brilliant preacher, which is noteworthy because his mentor, Ravi Zacharias, is perhaps the finest Christian apologist in the world today. In his commencement address to Biola graduates he left them this final charge:
"... I charge you as if you were my son or my daughter to not live this life thinking that you are just a person. You are an adopted heir. A son of God, a daughter of God … sent to combat for the kingdom in this world of darkness."
Amen. You fought the good fight and conquered in Christ. You sought and you found and now you know His peace. God does not forget His own.
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