But what I really wanted to know was what actually won him over: ‘What argument did they use? What line of reasoning persuaded you to turn from Islam to Christianity?’ He replied: ‘It wasn’t what they said; it was them.’ This really challenged me. It made me see the folly of imagining we are only going to win people over by superior arguments, or by great preaching. What impresses the world most, I have to say, is changed lives – for which there is no natural explanation.
