Sunday in Calicut

It is Sunday at 2:15 p.m. in Calicut, India.  I just returned from a church service at a local church. 

In a couple of hours we will be hitting the streets again in Calicut to share the Gospel with more of the Mapilla people.  Things have really picked up overall.  This morning K. Vance and K. Wade went and played cricket with some Muslim guys that we met last night.  They said that they had a really great time.  

This picture is of Fahat.  He seemed to really connect with us and I think things got even better after he spent the morning with K. Wade and K. Vance.  These guys actually said, after the cricket game, "you are the nice people."  He got my email address last night and I am sure he got contact information for the other guys as well.  Pray that God would begin to speak very clearly to Fahat and the other Muslim men we are meeting.

  

We also were blessed to be able to share the Gospel from 3 or 4 different angles with some middle aged Muslims last night.  We knew they believed in creation and the fall of Adam, so we talked about the blood that was shed in the garden in order to provide a covering for the nakedness of Adam and Eve and tied that into how he shed his blood to provide a sin covering for us. We also talked about how God provided a lamb for Abraham to sacrifice in place of Isaac and tied that into how our sin causes us to be under the knife like Isaac, but God provided a lamb...Jesus Christ.  We were able to share with them the Gospel and that is what we were called here to do.  God will use the Gospel to do what He wants to do.

    

Muslims do not generally convert to Christ on the spot.  They have to hear, consider, think and then hear some more.  Usually it takes more than 6 months.  Pray that God would work in the lives of these people and that they would be impacted by the power of Christ.  Pray that they would continue to correspond and ask questions over the next months.  Pray that God would call more individuals from our church and from other churches to come into this city to share the Word of God with the Mapilla people of Calicut.  

Thank everyone for their prayers.  They are really being felt by us.  Pray that they will be felt by the Muslims here.