We’ve known for a while that our Uyghur student friends are all pretty devoted to an Imam (a Muslim pastor-type) here in town. But just recently, we’ve learned more about this guy.
He’s a younger guy from the Middle East who is teaching Arabic at the university where our friends are all studying English (and some of them, Arabic as well.) His wife and new baby are here with him and are quite housebound as the wife speaks only Arabic, no Chinese or English. This teacher is leading an underground mosque, discipling his young followers towards serious Islam, and some are even being seduced with ideas of Muslim supremacy, including violence.
And... our battle is not against this guy. It is against “the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Eph 6:12)
Would you put on the armor of God and fight with us in prayer against these enemies of these Gospel- Islam, Deceit, Pride, Fear of Man? Pray that he and his wife and child would encounter Christ just like Saul of Tarsus did. Pray that there would be a mass turning to Christ among the Muslim students in this mosque, so many of whom have also heard the Gospel and have close Christian friends in their lives now. May the Lord bring his kingdom, open their eyes and ears and hearts to Him!
And... tomorrow my dear friend M is coming over and I have two big points I want to bring up with her... would you please ask for boldness for me and an open, soft, hearing heart for her? She’s returning to her hometown for the summer in just two more weeks and I really yearn that she have some “pebbles in her shoe” to have to grapple in this season home. I want her to have to think critically about Islam, about the “answers” it offers her and the dead-end it brings her to. Pray that the Holy Spirit would work in her and draw her and many with her to salvation in Christ!
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*Uyghurs are ripe and ready to hear teaching on why and how they can be more serious Muslims because their culture tells them that to be Uyghur is to be Muslim. Their government tells them there is no god... (although supposedly they are allowed to be Muslim, though this is for sure not always the case.) As a whole, the 11-12 million Uyghurs are thought to be at least 97% Muslim.
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What a task you have ahead of you, friends! And yes, the real enemy is not the Imam, but the rulers of darkness, and God is greater than the evil that surrounds! May M's heart be challenged and drawn to the One who can answer her heart's cry, as well as those University students who are following the leading of the man who will draw them away from the truth. Thank you for encouraging us with your devotion to the Lord!
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