Missions
Hello DaughterofEve!!!
When I was 17 years old, I dedicated my life to missions, and let me tell ya, it is the most challenging, exciting, faith-stretching lifestyle ever. Because turth is, God has called every Christian out there to the mission field. God said "Therefore Go and make desciples of all nations" speaking to all his followers... he didn't say he was gonna pick a certain group of people. We have missionaries everywhere, even in our own home towns. Of course, overseas missionaries are looked at differently many times because they are overseas and in a foreign country and there is more that goes into it.
Last night, a Missionary from India came to my church to speak. The dude was awesome. Did you know that there are more muslims in India than there are in Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, (and many other countries I can't remember) combined! It is definitely a place where God is doing amazing things. Every day muslims are coming to Christ, through prophecies, dreams, etc. The missionary told us a story about this one guy who was in seminary to be like what we would view as a Priest or Pastor, except of the Muslim religion. He was in his final course and his final project was to write an essay comparing Jesus and Muhammad (whom they follow). And as he started doing research on Jesus, he read about all the miracles, how he healed the sick, raised the dead, rose from the dead - the dude was like wow! i never heard of this before! i'm gonna read the bible- so he started reading the life of Jesus and finally he turned from Islam and became a Christian without ever talking to a missionary or any other Christian. As soon as he graduated and became a leader of ... whatever the Islam place of worship is called... he didn't preach the teaching of Muhammad, the dude started talking about Jesus. And his congregation was shocked and they kicked him out, and he was free to do whatever he wanted to.. so he went to find other christians, and ended up in a Baptist Church, and now he leads so many christian ministries in his area. It's exciting!!!
Anyway, I just thought I'd share that with you. God is doing crazy wild amazing things in India, and continue praying for the country. The culture is amazing. I was excited when I saw that the missionary's wife had a nose ring. I was like, dude that's sweet! A missionary has a nose ring! Rock on!
I just had to share my excitement with you. Keep keepin' it funky, Girl! And go where ever God calls you too!
"Therefore Go"