I've been talking with my tutor about lies.... she's telling some big ones to her mom this semester, living in fear that her school will find out she's camping in the dorms without paying, and living hundreds of miles away from the guy she says she thinks she wants to marry, but can she trust him?
Many people in our line of work have read a book that explains three different paradigms of thought for most people around the world: honor/shame (our Muslim friends), guilt/innocence, and fear/power. I've tried to poke at another possibility with this friend of mine..... How do you have relationship (with God or anyone) if you don't have trust?
And this is huge for our Muslim friends because one of the 99 names for Allah is "The Great Deciever".
I mentioned this to my dear tutor friend, M, with whom I've been chatting about this. She was surprised... (there's so much that she doesn't know about her own religion!) Pray that she would wrestle with this. Ask that she would become dissatisfied, disillusioned with Islam.
Muslims are taught that they just need to submit to Islam without questioning it, without critiquing it's reasonability, historicity... One great thing we've got going is that we're a 2 day train ride from the home province of Islam, of these students. Some of them are willing to go public in dating relationships here, and they would never do that in XinJiang. We're praying for a similar daring-willingness to begin to dialogue abut Christianity, and openness to see the holes and error in Islam.
For anyone interested: here's a long write up about this name from a Christian apologetics view, and here's a Muslim defense.
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WOw, praying for M and for the other Uyghur students at the university, that they might have a daring boldness to question and see what Jesus is all about, that He might give them what they have always wanted but never knew existed outside of Himself, that they would become dissatisfied with Islam and seek after the truth regardless of the consequence. And may He cover you with protect, linguistic understanding, provision, and encouragement as you do this hard work for His Glory. Bless you, dear ones!!
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