ISIS CAUSES PEOPLE TO TURN TO CHRIST AT STUNNING RATE Members of an Iraqi ministry team in the Kurdish capital Erbil, who are supplying displaced people with food, clothing, beds and medicine, recently came into contact with a colonel from the Peshmerga forces battling ISIS. The colonel inquired about the reason for offering all this aid. What was the team’s motivation, what was the source of it? “We spoke with him explicitly. We explained that Christ taught us to love and express our love to people in a practical way,” said the team director, who informed the officer that all relief items had been donated or purchased locally. The Peshmerga colonel was quick to respond. “You see, the Arabs around us in the Gulf states, which claim to be religious Muslims, have not sent us anything but terrorists,” he told the ministry team members. “But you who follow Christ send love and peace and goodness to people every day.” “After we had a long talk with him about Christ, he bowed and prayed, asking Christ into his life,” the team director reports. “And he said, ‘Today I am the happiest person - Ive had the privilege of making this decision,’ and he received a copy of the Bible.” The colonels experience was just one of many taking place in Iraq. In cities of refuge like Erbil - for people displaced from their homes in other parts of Iraq - people are turning to Christ at a stunning pace. Tent churches are springing up in the makeshift camps. Under normal circumstances, mission strategies focus on how to proclaim Christ effectively, but the challenge now is keeping pace with the number who would receive Him. As a result of this trend, some church leaders and workers for ministry organizations are remaining in Iraq even as the cruel practices of ISIS - beheading Iraqi children who refuse to deny Christ in Qaroqosh and Western journalists elsewhere - gain greater notoriety. “I think of workers who stayed behind in Mosul and the surrounding areas because there are so many who are receptive to the Gospel,” says the ministry team leader. “They are willing to risk being in an area under the rule of ISIS for the privilege of more and more fruit for Christ.” “We need to intercede for these workers. They are always in danger. They need Gods power to show His love to the thousands of helpless people.” SOURCE: JN NAMES WITHHELD (THE PICTURES USED ARE NOT RELATED TO THIS STORY...SABIR
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:34:39 +0000
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