What Is an Insider Movement?

What is an insider movement?

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Insider movements once were quite popular. They're still quite strong. They've just gone underground. A lot of mission agencies will practice them; they just will call them a different name.

What it was—and what it still is—is someone who is convinced of the gospel, but we are told, for the sake of your own health, so that your security isn't jeopardized, and so that you can still move freely among your circle of relationships: if you're a Muslim, go to the mosque, and as you bow down to pray towards Mecca, just know in your heart that you're praying towards Jesus Christ. You're not praying towards Allah.

And so outwardly, this individual's Muslim friends would see very little difference between them and a practicing Muslim. But what we're told is this guy is an insider now. He's moving internally among his relationships, but he's a Christ-follower.

This is a really poor method of evangelism. It's full of problems. There's a lot of articles written about it, but it's still practiced today in a lot of circles.

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