Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

1.Nabeel describes being trained in Islamic apologetics — arguments for the truth of Islam and against Christianity. Were you raised to defend your faith intellectually? How has that shaped (or limited) how you engage with people who believe differently?

1.Describe the early dynamic between Nabeel and David Wood. What made their friendship unusual, and why do you think it worked when so many interfaith conversations fail?

1.Nabeel had been taught that the Bible was hopelessly corrupted and unreliable. When he actually examined the manuscript evidence, what did he find — and how did that finding begin to destabilize his Islamic apologetics?

1.Nabeel engages what scholars call the 'minimal facts' approach to the resurrection — focusing on facts that are accepted by the vast majority of historians, including skeptics. What are these minimal facts, and why is this method a powerful tool in dialogue with non-Christians?

1.Islam has a high view of Jesus — it teaches that he was born of a virgin, performed miracles, and will return at the end of time. Why, then, is the Islamic Jesus so fundamentally different from the Christian Jesus, and why does that difference matter so much?

1.Nabeel describes knowing intellectually that Christianity was true while being emotionally and relationally unable to embrace it. Have you ever experienced a gap between what you knew to be true and what you were able to act on? What kept you from the next step?

1.Dreams play a significant role in both the Old and New Testaments as a means of divine communication. How does the broader biblical framework for dreams (Acts 2:17; Matthew 1–2) inform how we evaluate Nabeel's experience?

1.Describe in your own words the moment Nabeel finally surrenders to Jesus. What does it look like? Where is he? What does he feel?

1.Describe the scene when Nabeel tells his parents about his conversion. How do his mother and father each respond, and what does their response reveal about the depth of what has been lost — and what each person loves most?

1.What was it like for Nabeel to enter a Christian community for the first time as a believer? What surprised him, confused him, or delighted him about how Christians worship and do life together?

1.Nabeel went from being a defender of Islam to being a defender of Christianity. What unique gifts and experiences did his Muslim background give him as a Christian apologist that someone who had never been Muslim could not easily replicate?

1.By the time of the book's writing, what was the state of Nabeel's relationship with his family? What does this tell us about the long, non-linear nature of the healing that follows conversion?

1.Nabeel's book, beyond being a memoir, functions as an introduction to Islam for Christians. What are the three or four most important things you learned about Islam from this book that you did not know before?

1.Looking back across the whole book, which week's discussion or which chapter from the book was most significant to you personally — and why?