soldier who had blown up a church in Iraq
was baptised by the very pastor whose church
he had attacked! churches, as there men disciple men and women
disciple women, and new churches gather mostly
in small group setting.
In another European city every imam refused to
participate in a debate with a well-known Christian
apologist. But one did. Soon after that, his daughter
fell ill. Half of her body was paralysed, and her
heartbeat rose to 240 beats per minute. She was
about to die. In despair, the imam prayed to Jesus.
The daughter recovered immediately. The imam
realised that the god he had prayed all his life had
done nothing to help him, but Jesus whom he had
been fighting against had been willing to heal his
daughter straight away. He is now a Christian. Pray for us, as our work is expanding rapidly
in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East!
The Christ4Arabs meeting that we are hosting in
our church on Saturday 4 November is but a small,
visible part of this mostly invisible, underground work.
It seems that the God-given Arab Spring is finally
arriving, as the new Arab Church consisting mainly
of ex-Muslims is rising! ❖
There seem to be five main reasons why Muslim
Arabs are choosing Christ: supernatural dreams and
visions about Jesus; falling in love with Jesus when
they read the Gospels; healing miracles; practical
love expressed by Christians; and disillusionment
because of the Islamic State.
It seems that we are witnessing the beginnings of
a seismic spiritual earthquake that will change the
spiritual landscape of the world in decades to come.
In 2005 God gave us a vision of four combine
harvesters that would soon begin to bring the Middle
East to Christ: satellite TV, internet, small groups in
home churches and large evangelistic events. What
has become evident is that those combine harvesters
are now all at work, and hundreds of ministries are
working together to bring the harvest in. What is
particularly encouraging is that much of this work is
now led by ex-Muslims, who burn with zeal to bring
their brothers to Jesus!
If you have Arabic speaking family or friends,
bring them to KT on Saturday 4 November for a
special evening of hospitality and outreach.
The Arab church is discovering the importance of
discipleship, and Colin’s teaching materials that have
been translated into Arabic have been well received
both in Europe and the Middle East.
We have also seen that the general principles
of ministry we have learnt through cell vision are
mostly applicable in the new Middle Eastern
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