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Frontline Fridays – An unexpected visitor with a Jesus search engine

iGo Global Staff • Jan 18, 2013

On Fridays we present stories from the front lines of God’s kingdom advance. As you read them, be encouraged. God’s Ancient Work continues on across the globe. Also, be challenged. Stay engaged in the mission of God. Right here where you are and stay engaged globally as well. Have a story you want to share? Send it to us at elephant AT igoglobal DOT org. Maybe we will feature your story one of these Fridays.

South Asia update by Brooke B. (A story from this past summer)

Early one morning during our final week in the city, I looked up to see an unexpected visitor- our friend S. A friendship between a team member and S was established last summer, and I was introduced to S within the first week of being in LP. The first day I met S he shared with me, “I once had a Jesus search engine.” (Translation: he had researched Jesus on the Internet.) Through other conversations that first day, it was clear Father was at work in S’s life.

For several weeks, S hung out with our team and bits and pieces of The Story were shared. S continued telling us he thought Jesus was very interesting and might be true, but he was unable to believe because his family was Animist and worshiped the spirits of ancestors.

Almost a whole month went by without seeing or speaking to S, so I was excited to talk to him when I saw him one morning. The excitement only multiplied when he shared with me, “I have decided to believe in the Jesus!” S told me how he and his brother went to the local church where they heard a house built on Jesus was on solid ground, but a house built on Animism was on sand. After talking to the pastor, S’s entire family believed in Jesus! The exact barrier S had said was preventing him from believing had been removed! A few days later, S invited our team to visit his home. While inside the one room thatched roof home, S pointed to an empty place on the shelf, “We had things for the spirits there before, but when we believed in the Jesus, we threw them away.”

The local church in Southeast Asia is growing and thriving despite persecution. My heart is filled with joy knowing that S and his entire family will be encouraged and discipled not by Ms or other Westerners, but by the local church. Their questions can be answered in their own language, and they have a Bible in their own tribal tongue. Seeing locals reaching locals was a prayer that I repeated throughout the summer. As I saw the fruit of it in S’s life, I developed a new prayer- that S would rise up to the task of reaching the people of his country.

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