Today has been a great day. We met with several Lebanese Christians to work out a Guilty Campaign outreach for the American University in Beirut (AUB). The premise would be to have a discussion about "what's wrong with the world?", eluding to the fact that the problem is sin and that we are all part of the problem. Subsequently, we would discuss where our hope lies... that the only hope for the condition of the malignant human heart, and thus all our broken situations, is Christ Jesus.
We made fliers and invited them to a discussion forum next week at the local student ministry to connect them to a long term resource for Christianity.
This approach is very post modern, but it's an effective way to get university students talking, many of whom are non-practicing Muslims and nominal Christians. However, many of them are practicing Druze or Muslim and they were willing to talk to us as well.
Discussion of religion and politics flows very easily here and people are very used to others having opinions on these matters. It's exciting how easy it is to talk about Jesus! His name still causes a stirring reaction though.
We got to really discuss religion with a Shia Muslim girl. She is so sweet and very smart. We really enjoyed her and she was willing to meet with us tomorrow to talk more!
Please pray for her and for the other students we talked to. Pray that she would be moved towards Christ during our meeting. Pray that she would accept a bible from us and that we could meet with her more before we leave. Pray that students would come and fill the student ministry next week and that the discussion would move their hearts to seeing that they, too, need a Savior. Please keep praying for Abed too, he is still with our wonderful couple!
Thank you for for your prayers and support and your time to read what we are doing here.
Blessings,
AM
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