Romans, let's just look at Romans chapter 1.
I want to keep in mind as I
share with you this evening, and it's so
great to have so many of you here
from different teams, that I want to keep
in mind this little tape that goes out
to teams.
Because of the expense we don't send so
many of these tapes out, but this one
will go out to some of you, who
knows, South Africa, Argentina, Dulas, Lagos, New Zealand,
back to India.
We trust it'll be an encouragement to you.
I'm just gonna speak for a while, then
we're gonna pray, then I'm gonna speak a
little more on, especially focus our praying on
the Indian subcontinent.
Romans chapter 1, starting in verse 13.
Now I would not have you ignorant brethren,
that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you,
but was prevented thus far, that I might
have some fruit among you, also even as
among other Gentiles.
I am a debtor, both to the Greeks
and to the barbarians, both to the wise
and to the unwise.
So as much as is in me, is
I am ready to preach the gospel to
you that are at Rome also.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ, for it is the power of
God unto salvation, to everyone that believe it,
to the Jew first and also to the
Greek.
For in it is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith, as it is
written, the just shall live by faith.
But the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Because that which may be known of God
is manifest in them, for God has shown
it unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
as eternal power and Godhead, so that they
are without excuse.
So they are without excuse.
Because when they knew God, they glorified him
not as God, neither were thankful, but became
vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart
was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man and
birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who exchanged
the truth of God for a lie and
worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed forever.
Amen.
And we can read on.
I think we know the passage.
Something very real happened to me on this
trip to Asia.
I hope I don't say this lightly.
I know how weak I am and I
can only say it in faith, but I
don't think by the grace of God I'll
ever be the same after this trip to
Asia.
I think the climax came, a very deep
experience came, in Pakistan when I was out
in the streets just selling books.
I went in, Mike Wakely and I were
selling together and I was dressed in my
newly purchased Punjabi outfit that most of the
people wear there.
I was in a little typewriter shop.
The man knew fluent English.
One of the things you must understand about
the subcontinent is that you can be effective
to a degree even if only you speak
English.
All you speak is English.
I can't even speak it right.
This is the thing that the body of
Christ has not grasped, that there are areas
of the world where you can minister even
with English language.
I saw this again at Oxford this weekend
when someone was making an announcement about working
in France and really the announcement was only
aimed at the super A-level linguists.
It was clearly communicated that you were a
French linguist and there was a place for
you.
So I got up after this announcement and
I said, well all the rest of you
who don't know any languages, we can use
you on a limb.
I think I may get some more recruits
even out of Oxford.
And here this man in this little typewriter
shop, he bought almost every book I showed
him and he knew fluent English.
He said, why don't you have English books?
I didn't even have English books with me.
And then one or two others came in
and then they sent for tea and pretty
soon, you know, we had all kinds of
conversation going on and in came the man
who was the holy man from the mosque
next door.
He wanted to know what was going on.
I didn't realize at that time this was
a Shiite mosque.
Shiites are a minority group in Pakistan.
They are, many of them, in favor of
the present regime in Iran.
And the Sunnis hate the Shiites, generally speaking,
and there's been some killing and some tension
over that even recently.
But they soon were inviting us over, or
I think we hinted that we wouldn't mind
going over and looking at their little mosque,
and they invited us over and more tea
was flowing.
And I don't know how it all happened.
Wakeley was sort of more in charge than
I was.
And we ended up there in this mosque
just praying with these holy men.
And we were giving him books and they
were buying books about Jesus.
And they were interested.
Mike Wakeley's Urdu is growing.
So he was conversing.
I only have about seven phrases.
So I eventually ran out of steam back
quite soon.
But they knew some English terms.
The man in the typewriter shop, he was,
knew fluent English.
He was, he wasn't with us when we
went there in the mosque.
And somehow, after I left that place, that
little Shiite mosque, I sensed that something had
happened.
And the next day when I went out
again in the streets, just selling books, I
sensed there was something more real in me.
Something that maybe over the past years has
drifted away.
Just the lack of personal compassion for individuals
who are, without Christ, so much of my
ministry is to Christians.
I'm not abandoning that.
But I just sensed that I am an
evangelist, that I must make reaching unsaved people
the absolute priority of my life.
And not get sidetracked from that.
The next day when we were out selling
books in Rawalpindi, again, it was just amazing.
I sold almost every single book I had
in my book bag.
Must have been 70, 80 rupees in an
hour and a half.
I couldn't believe it.
I kept running back looking for the other
men on the team and grabbing their books
and going back to these different contacts I
was getting.
One man said he wanted everything I had.
Could I come the next day?
I was unable to do that.
We were leaving for the next place.
But the openness in Pakistan, the distance you
can go with English, the way they buy
books, these weren't just packets.
In India, so often, they always just sell
packets.
These are books for 10 rupees, 20 rupees,
and people were happy to pay.
It isn't always that way.
I'm aware of that.
Well, something happened to me there in the
streets of Pakistan.
I don't have all the pieces together.
I knew I should wait until I get
back here and get enmeshed before I can
make any objective decision.
If you're my type of person, when you're
in something, you get subjective.
I have to face a lot of realities
before I make any interesting decisions.
But God has set before us a great
open door in this land of Pakistan.
There are 93 million people here.
I always appreciate people writing and correcting my
wrong statements.
Gary wrote me a good note saying that
I once corrected him about this comparison between
India, Africa, and South America.
I don't actually remember that, but I'm sure
I did if he said it.
I've always gone around saying that there's more
people in India than South America and Africa
together, and it's always been true up until
a few years ago.
Gary's note today helped me to realize that
with the rapid growth of population in both
Africa and South America, I no longer can
say there are more people in India than
South America and Africa together.
But I can tell you it isn't that
much, and all I have to do to
rectify my statistic, which I've been using for
many, many years, that now is in error
if I say it that way, is simply
say subcontinent.
There are more people in the Indian subcontinent
than all of Africa and all of South
America combined, according to the statistics that I
have and just happen to have with me,
the world population statistics for 1982.
And Pakistan has 93 million, and unless this
is in error, Bangladesh has 93 million.
And India has 713 million, and this is
the estimate in mid-1982.
They haven't stopped production since.
The fact of the matter is there will
soon be a thousand million souls in the
Indian subcontinent.
Now, we don't like you to go around
spending a lot of money on flicks.
We're not against you going to good films,
but they are expensive.
But you better get up and see Gandhi,
even at £2.20. Now, I don't know
where you're going to get £2.20. Go
sell something, and you'll have your little pocket
money.
Forsake your ice creams.
I saw it last night, and it is
a very moving film.
You realize, of course, when you see that
film, when we talk about the Indian subcontinent,
that before 1947, this was all one area,
except, of course, Nepal has always been a
separate country, and Sri Lanka, a little separate
raindrop island there to the south.
So, Pakistan has 93 million people, that one
country.
It's basically one major language group.
There are a lot of Punjabi-speaking people.
There are Pashto-speaking people.
There are various language groups, but as a
whole, basically, if you speak Urdu, you can
go with a good percentage of the people.
One of our leaders found out today, who
I was talking to, that Hindi and Urdu
are as similar in spoken terms as English
and American.
If you learn Hindi, you can go to
Pakistan and speak.
You have a few changes of words, just
like we do English and American.
Script is a different story.
Hindi script is totally different from Urdu script,
but the spoken language, the phrases I use
to sell books are Hindi phrases.
They understood quite easily what I was saying.
What an amazing challenge.
The Urdu or Hindi language, because there are
now 300 million people that speak that one
language.
Some of you have been wondering what was
the next language you should get into.
How ridiculous to bother with a language, unless
you get very special guidance, that only 20
or 30 or 40 million people are speaking.
Some of you, I know, already have special
guidance for such languages, but here's 300 million.
I understand that it's not that difficult compared
to, say, Arabic or some other languages.
So I brought back my Urdu tapes, 18
tapes or 12 tapes, I forget, big album
and a big thick book, Spoken Urdu.
And I'm now objectively trying to decide what
I'm supposed to do with it.
But the Lord knows my heart that if
I were 15 years younger, that's the country
I think I would be in, Pakistan.
Well, I think we ought to go back
to the beginning of this trip and then
return to Pakistan, because I would like us
to especially pray, first of all, for the
work in India.
My first reason for going out on this
trip was to meet with the leaders of
the work in India.
India, a land of 714 million people, where
without any question is the most, or the
greatest is a better word to use, open
door that OM faces anywhere in the world.
There are countries that I feel are more
important in many ways, I would put in
that category, but we have to face facts
that Turkey is not an open door in
the full sense of what OM can do
and wants to do.
Turkey is a land that takes specialists, it
takes people with definite preparation, who are going
to immediately enmesh themselves in the Turkish language,
and probably we'll discover a few years after
they've done that, they've been kicked out.
Because there's no way that we can pretend
that Turkey is the kind of open door
that we face, for example, in Pakistan.
Dale Roton, writing about Turkey many years ago,
suggested people go to India, the subcontinent, get
some training, and then come back to Turkey.
In many ways, Pakistan would be more suitable
than India for that, in that Pakistan is
mainly all Muslim.
So, I'm not saying in any way that
in my mind all of a sudden Pakistan
is more important than Turkey, because it isn't.
But I am saying that the subcontinent area,
in the light of what God has given
OM, in terms of the people and the
kinds of people, and where they are spiritually,
and where they are in terms of their
life work, and in terms of language, and
in terms of the very distinct vision God
has given us for mass evangelism.
You know, a lot of these countries I
went through last year, the last thing you
can do is any mass evangelism.
We had one OMer in Morocco who tried
just a few tracks on the beach two
years ago, and boom, the police were on
him, and boom, the missionaries were involved, and
I never heard the end of it.
Still got another letter about it, not so
long ago.
In fact, I had a letter also from
Greg Livingston, saying not a single veteran missionary
of the North African mission is left in
North Africa.
That's what he said in the letter.
Not a single veteran, longer-term missionary of
the North African mission left in North Africa.
I mean, in these countries, we have got
to face realities.
The obstacles are coming from every direction.
And here is a Muslim area, and remember
now there will soon be more Muslims in
India than in Pakistan.
This is the amazing thing, especially when you
see that film Gandhi.
Think of all the Muslims supposedly leaving India
to go to East and West Pakistan, and
now today because of population explosion, there will
be more Muslims in India than in Pakistan.
Amazing.
And if we are going to have a
thrust into the Muslim world as we are
having with NOM, then we have got to
consider more intensely than we have up to
now the Indian subcontinent.
Soon, 1,000 million souls, 1 billion, the
Americans say.
One-fourth of them, over one-fourth of
them, Muslim.
A quarter of a billion Muslims.
250 to 300 million Muslims.
And in India, we would have trouble finding
a few dozen people working in depth, follow
-up, speaking to people, revisiting them, that kind
of work in depth among Muslims.
As far as mass evangelism, probably Muslims have
been reached in India more than almost anywhere
in the world.
Through OM teams, through Every Home Crusade, through
different groups, films, literature, the Muslims get, they
get something, New Testaments, Gospels, tracts.
But we are not going to see living
fellowships of Muslims established just through that kind
of minimum evangelism as important as it is.
One of the decisions, one of many decisions
made in Nepal was the decision to give
one-seventh of our time now to reaching
Muslims.
We are aware this is only a beginning.
We have had Muslim specialist teams in India
for quite a few years.
We also had a large-scale specialist campaign
among Muslims.
The new campaign coming up in West Bengal,
an area where there are many Muslims is
aimed at their direction.
And we hope that in the future we
are going to have more such specialist teams,
greater training, more literature geared toward the Muslim
mind.
But meanwhile, everybody in India is going to
do something.
And so we have decided to give one
out of every seven days to working among
Muslims.
How do we do that?
You see, in India it is a simple
matter of going to the part of the
town where they live.
Some of the teams are going to choose
Friday.
They are going to go within range of
where the mosque is.
Other teams may choose another day.
On that day, they are going to make
sure they put the right literature in their
shoulder bag.
You can't always take all the literature.
Just like when I went out, I forgot
the English.
And so on that day, they will take
literature more geared for Muslims in their language.
And they will go to the area where
the Muslims are.
And when they preach, they will preach with
the Muslims in mind.
And when they do their personal work, they
will look for Muslims.
And I believe, considering we have 300 people
committed to the work in India, that this
is going to be a tremendous forward thrust
in reaching Muslims with the gospel.
Let's pray, because that will take some changes
of gears and some action to become a
reality.
We want to have films and film strips
geared for Muslims.
We want to have cassette tapes that have
testimonies of converted Muslims who have found Christ.
We hope that through cassette tapes and through
other methods, we can really begin to see
a greater harvest among the Muslim people of
India.
Of course, in Bangladesh, and that was the
first country we went to on this trip,
the main thrust of our whole strategy there
is among Muslims.
It is unfortunate that sometimes people don't listen
straight.
And we have asked people to keep out
of our prayer letters information about what's happening
in Bangladesh among these Muslims.
And lo and behold, in one of the
main international letters recently, was a detailed description
of what's happening in Bangladesh.
I think even names.
I can assure you this is very distressing
to the brothers in Bangladesh.
And I mention this because I think all
of us who are in OM need to
be more security conscious.
We need to be a little careful of
what we put into our prayer letters.
And mentioning, especially naming the country and naming
the town, and then naming individuals and then
talking about Muslims being converted and baptized, gathering
into a local worshipping group, believe me, that
has the possibility of ending very quickly what
those people are trying to do.
So we hope that those who listen to
this tape and I'm not going to give
any of the details, and those who maybe
read this manuscript will be aware of that.
But the brothers there do want you to
pray for their work out in the villages,
among Muslims, witnessing to them, sitting down with
them hour after hour, and seeing small, little
small groups of heads of families, not just
one here and one there.
And when that happens they usually have to
run for their lives or seek refuge in
a missionary compound or go overseas or something.
They're trying, and in many ways the brothers
involved in this, it's somewhat described in Phil
Parshall's book, New Paths to Muslim Evangelism, but
not really in the sense that they are
nowhere near in terms of adapting to culture
as far as some of the ideas that
have brought so much controversy in that book.
They're not into some of these things that
are so controversial, but they are adapting to
the culture of Bangladesh to some degree and
trying to meet these people where they are.
And there have been a number of professions,
just a couple of small experimental groups.
And we want to cry out to God
for the people working among them.
At the same time, we continue our distribution
teams, which are the traditional sort of blitz
team, selling books, selling New Testament, especially Muslimani
New Testament.
As Mike Light comes back for sort of
a sabbatical for some training and a change.
Brother Marit and Joy will take over the
leadership of those teams.
And Roger Atkins and his wife Jackie will
come in and help Marit and Joy.
As Phil Bushel continues the general oversight.
He won't be able to do the day
-by-day running because he's actually living out
in a village.
So as we go to prayer in a
few minutes, let's remember Bangladesh.
We had some encouraging meetings there.
I would like to get some more time
in Bangladesh to feel out the church situation
as I did in Pakistan.
The church in Bangladesh is very, very different
from the church in Pakistan.
By the way, many of those people slaughtered
this week in Assam, in Assam in India,
were people from Bangladesh who had gone there
as refugees.
It's a terrible thing what's happened in Assam
through that election.
It's very much on my mind.
Let me just mention a few of the
people in India because I want us to
pray for people.
I think this was the greatest challenge of
Nepal was to just be with these people.
Hour after hour for 12 days, generally 15
hours a day, just meetings, fellowship, prayer, exhortation,
endless walks all over Kathmandu.
I explored more of Kathmandu than I did
when I lived there.
Some of the people, and I hope you'll
write some of the names down just as
I wrote them down in my notebook so
that I wouldn't forget them, wouldn't leave them
out.
Their names we're familiar with.
Sometimes we write things on the overhead projector
and it looks like good old Daryl is
doing that.
But remember, we had prayer meetings even before
the birth of the overhead projector.
So when you're in a prayer meeting and
you don't have an overhead projector, we hope
you won't be totally discouraged and we hope
you'll reach into your pocket and take out
a pen and write these things down even
if you can't copy them.
Alfie, Alfie Franks, he was able to bring
his wife.
What a blessing it was to see her
after many years.
Alfie is carrying an enormous load, we all
know that.
And I hope you'll continue to faithfully pray
for him.
We're trying to get him to come to
Europe.
He's given us the possibility of 1984.
It was so tremendous working together with Alfie,
Ray, and the little board of trustees which
includes Divakarum, Joseph de Souza, and Thomas Matai.
We met for a day or two with
Alfie and Ray, then we met a day
or two with the board of trustees and
then everybody else came in.
It was just a great time of praying
and talking through so many issues.
And let's really offer praise for the way
Alfie and Ray now have worked together as
co-leaders for so many years and for
the complement they are of each other.
They're both very unassuming people in many ways.
Some others I want you to pray for
are P.M. John.
I missed him last year in Nepal for
various reasons.
He has now finished his university course, he's
got his degree, and he's back into the
action coordinating Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
And Chella Durai, who works very closely with
him, definitely has been decided will continue longer
term with OM, getting married soon.
He had his marriage date set and then
when we shared with him that we didn't
really think he could go from the wedding
to this big study program and crusade, of
course it took him about three and a
half seconds to postpone the wedding.
That's Chella Durai.
He is an amazing brother.
He is really one of the key evangelists.
He is a teacher and loves to teach
in the study program.
I think he wanted to postpone the wedding
for that too, the study program.
But he also has a gift of evangelism.
And the key of the work in India,
the key are these people.
And I hope you'll pray fervently for him.
Also his brother Kumar is handling the lineup
for this big coming push that we also
want to pray for called ROK, R-O
-K, Reach Out Karnataka.
An effort to see a hundred people mobilize
and you'll be getting some literature about that
probably in a prayer meeting one of these
days.
So let's remember those brothers and the others
who are laboring there.
It's not possible we don't have time to
give you all the names.
There are so many people involved.
Then Augustine, he is now the coordinator for
Kerala.
I think the biggest news of the time
in Nepal was that Thomas Mattai feels the
Lord is leading him in a separate ministry
of launching a publishing house in Kerala.
We noticed over the years both in India
and in other countries that not only do
individuals leave OM and go out and have
an effective ministry but whole ministries are born
within OM and then go out.
And we saw this happen in Nepal.
Two of the most strategic moves in Nepal
were the birth of the Kerala Publishing House
in the Malayalam language under Thomas Mattai when
he finishes his sabbatical.
He's been with us almost 15 years.
We're going to help him launch that.
It's a desperate need.
And the birth of a sort of village
church planting follow-up ministry under John Lee
in West Bengal.
In both of these cases after a lot
of prayer and discussion and we haven't done
this so much at least I haven't we
felt led not only to pray for these
brothers but we looked up several scriptures on
the thing of laying on hands and we
laid our hands on them some of us
leaders and committed them to these new ministries.
So let's pray for Thomas Mattai as he
has this year's sabbatical.
His wife is still very, very ill.
Pray for him.
The possibility of a publishing house in Kerala
working very closely with OM and then for
John Lee and his wife who remain in
OM for several months but will eventually launch
out with two or three men who are
in OM at present for a very intensive
type follow-up ministry and church planting ministry
in West Bengal.
Another key name for prayer is Devakaram who
has been leading both Orissa and West Bengal.
From John Lee and wants to continue the
more traditional OM India vision of emphasizing training
individuals two or three years training and then
sending them out into different ministries.
There is going to be a church planting
training program in which a brother Indian Subodh
Sahu will help a couple of months a
year in training brothers who are just about
to leave OM about to leave OM about
to go into church planting and he will
help give them some training before they do
that and then let's remember in prayer Linda
and Manjula Linda and Manjula the women's leaders
they stayed in Nepal for some extra days
to get a little bit of a break
and gave us some extra time with them
and we now have the number of women
in India down to a hundred they feel
that's a good number to work with for
training and to try to do a quality
work so let's uphold them then Brother Marcos
as he continues leading Uttar Pradesh that state
has what 110 120 millions of people it's
just staggering and we've reduced the number of
teams not only in UP but most states
because of the financial situation because of the
need for quality because of the complexity of
OM India we have come down to more
like 300 people of course in the summer
crusade and we have summer crusades all year
in India there's always more people so that
is a special challenge and then John Brown
one of the few foreigners who continues in
state leadership leading the work in Bihar where
soon we will have this big Ganges 83
thrust that isn't just Bihar that's also part
of Uttar Pradesh and you'll be getting more
information about that down the line then Thomas
Matthew continuing to lead the work in Gujarat
this is the leader who has a totally
paralyzed daughter apart from her her head surname
Ruth little Ruth keep praying for her and
they're on a sabbatical a year of change
because he's living near the base he keeps
getting dragged back into the action but there's
actually another brother is it Chow Mark Chua
he was not able to go to Nepal
so I didn't meet him temporarily carrying the
load there Mark Parsons who's been working with
me traveling with me on this trip has
gone to Gujarat to help for a while
we felt going there was more strategic than
going back to the states with me that
covers the state area leaders except Joseph D'Souza
who is now a member of the board
of trustees overall leadership and leads the training
and study program based in Lucknow I'd love
to mention a lot of the team leaders
but there's not time I'm a bit sensitive
to the time but I would like to
just mention brother Sham Shad one of the
few converted Muslims we have in Orindia and
a team leader a very gifted team leader
in Uttar Pradesh I'd like us now at
this point even if you're listening to this
tape to spend some time in prayer if
you possibly can and then we're going to
pick up from here just a few other
things I'd like to mention that come out
of the time in Nepal that I would
like us to pray about I've mentioned the
thrust into Karnataka I've mentioned Ganges 83 I
briefly touched on the push starting very soon
sort of a summer campaign type of thing
in West Bengal I think there's a concept
that I would pray you might be able
to grasp we often wrestle in OM with
this whole thing of growth and expansion we
hear certain terms get thrown around like cutback
I think it's very important to understand that
we can cut back financially and still grow
do not think that financial cutback means less
growth it may mean more growth because financial
cutback can be part of God's pruning program
if you want a tree to grow and
I don't know much about fruit trees but
from the little I understand pruning helps growth
and God will be continually pruning a movement
like OM in his own loving way but
just in the subcontinent alone the scope for
growth is just unlimited you know do not
think this nation is being reached it is
not being reached if this nation is being
reached then bringing Luis Palau and Billy Graham
here is an obscenity Britain is not yet
reached and Britain has 100 times the witness
of Uttar Pradesh 100 times get that in
your head please get that in your head
because somehow people think oh 300 OMers in
India wow that is great work they are
reaching India for Christ forget it we are
just scratching the surface they are God's little
advance guard troops that are just somehow holding
out out there almost a bit like those
that Gandhi sent to walk into that mill
in his non-violence demonstration row after row
tried to go into the mill a beat
down with a stick every single row nobody
got into the mill but it did make
a big impact in the press and eventually
brought the end of British India oh that
somehow our little troops seemingly at times just
being beaten down in every state somehow the
bells of heaven may ring and the revival
may come and one of the greatest goals
of OM must be the strengthening of the
work in India we must not abandon that
work because other things look more interesting and
attractive God never intended OM to try to
evangelize every nation in the world he's given
us specific direction and somehow though there are
a lot of things we can do a
little bit in we must keep the direction
of the work toward this part of the
world and especially toward those Muslims who represent
the largest hidden so-called unreached people's group
in all the earth so let's pray for
these big efforts and the teams that go
on and sometimes it is a grind may
sound glamorous back here look glamorous in the
slide show it's a grind and it is
harder to live there it gets hot very
hot and people get sick very sick typhoid
malaria it's all there and we need to
be more committed to continual prayer continual prayer
and then also writing the brothers we need
to be more committed to getting that money
out there regularly we've made a new policy
because when they hear in India that there's
financial struggles the pressure is on them they
tend to eat less we've all agreed as
leaders in Nepal a few under pressure but
most on a voluntary basis we've all agreed
that it's only right for these men doing
such an important work that they get a
proper diet we've always agreed on this but
now we've done something more about it every
team is now required to spend twelve rupees
a day on food per person that's if
they're cooking it themselves if it's a restaurant
which isn't the kind of restaurant you would
think about but if it's a restaurant it's
fifteen rupees now this was over I don't
know how many, six, seven, eight hours of
discussion to get this one through and it's
got through and we're now trying to implement
it by getting the money out there I
think those of you especially working with STL
should be dancing a jig in your shoes
because you are the main financiers now of
the work in India India has plunged suddenly
twenty thousand into the red again within the
OM family she doesn't have so many big
bills so she's actually more healthy than maybe
some who have a positive field credit to
understand a field's position you look at where
they are in relation to the rest of
OM then you look at how many bills
they have to pay both of those things
will give you a more total picture but
India's not promoting a lot of giving in
Britain India's old hat India it's the nineteenth
century and so it's going to be a
lot of battle a lot of prayer and
we sense that part of the money is
continue to come the lion's share has to
come from giving when I say STL is
the main giver I'm talking about more than
half I'm talking about the largest single giver
to the work in India majority of the
money still has to come from the money
the young people pray in their own support
gifts within India book sales in India and
gifts from God's people all over the world
but I feel that this is certainly one
of the main things that I must do
is put my life on the line to
see finance prayed in for India and if
I can't do that then maybe I shouldn't
go back there anymore but I know this
is what the Lord wants so let's pray
as we go back to prayer in a
little while for the finance I mentioned to
you the new strategy for Muslims we're hoping
as we meet again next year to take
another bigger step but we need a couple
of specialists at least one who will be
sort of the specific coordinator of the Muslim
India thrust we got our eyes on one
or two there are some that would like
to but they already had major responsibilities we
need to get somebody who can give the
lion's share of his time to this not
just lips service and then go back to
his office to the 188 other things he's
supposed to be doing but that he can
give his time and effort to this and
that it will be a catalyst within the
church in India let me just say a
word now about recovery from the fire this
has been amazing and as I've looked over
the inventory of literature now available in India
I've just been staggered I don't know how
it all got there in the midst of
the big rush I think a few things
got there that don't belong there they belong
here certain books we had some pretty lively
discussion on this a few people were indicted
but not destroyed but it is complicated because
really there are differences of vision the majority
feel that the priority must be indigenous language
literature Bengali Gujarati Marathi Hindi Urdu Malayalam Telugu
Karnataka Canaries but there are others in the
Bombay scene have a great vision for English
which is important and English literature has the
potential to definitely be a tent making work
within India they would like to see the
whole Bombay operation operate on the money they
see come in from literature that would include
the investment we put into the literature you
know which you get back when you sell
it so it's not like living off book
sales we're not talking about that but at
least to see that much literature turning over
to cover the Bombay expenses not the state
expenses and the food fund and vehicles and
audio visuals but the recovery from the fire
has been very encouraging the two warehouses are
functioning the office is functioning the audio visual
department is still being rebuilt again the reports
back on the ministry with the films also
is very encouraging now let me just throw
in at this point that in everything we
talk about in India there are problems everything
we weren't in Nepal you know patting each
other on the back and having a happy
clap we were wrestling with every kind of
problem you can think of and I don't
want to go into great detail about it
because of the time but when you're in
a nation of this size and 714 million
people you are working in in a major
way in about seven languages smaller way many
many other languages trying to do so much
with so few and so many obstacles I
mean you can imagine and I'll tell you
I don't know if I can express this
properly my commitment to OM is greatly deepened
through this you know I can be OM's
worst critic and I go through stages where
I'm so fed up with this whole thing
you know all the organization committees conferences board
meetings discussions arguing for two hours on dimensions
of the safety pin at least to me
you might as well be arguing about that
you know I just forget it I'm going
to go out and set up a tower
in the middle of the desert throw paper
airplanes or something and really I think at
times back here just going to conferences and
taking meetings and being involved in discussions and
finance committee meetings you can really lose not
only your perspective you could lose your sanity
I thank God I think I've gained both
sanity and perspective through this trip that these
committee meetings and conferences and board meetings and
all this hassle back here it's worth it
they had it in the book of Acts
and if Paul had it and Peter had
it and the deacons had it or the
elders there in Acts 5 and 6 you
know we're not going to get away with
it we're not going to get away with
that Jerusalem meetings and Paul Barnabas bust ups
and women eating too much or not sharing
with the women they didn't like or whatever
other problems it's all part of the same
picture and the fact of the matter is
that through all these conferences and discussions and
prayer a lot ultimately is happening that's what
counts a lot ultimately is happening if you're
in a manufacturing corporation you've got to have
board meetings and discussion meetings and you've got
to have fights and you've got to scream
and of course as Christians we don't do
that in God's work but just an illustration
but if ultimately suppose you're with the Rolls
Royce company ultimately you turn out another 10
,000 Rolls Royces and sell them all and
make 15 billion dollars profit what do you
care if you've had some hassles in fact
in the secular world even if you lose
a couple of wives in the process of
doing that which secular men are ready to
do that they turn over the guys in
the big business turn over a wife about
every 10 years they figure as long as
they get the ultimate product another thousand Rolls
Royces and money it's worth it and I've
seen that the hassles the problems the difficulties
and what do we know compared to some
secular people we generally keep our wives and
operate a very different foundation we're getting the
finished product people are being reached people are
coming to Christ churches are being born there's
revival small revival in some places and it's
very very encouraging and so through this trip
my own commitment to OM to what we're
doing I'm a great one as you know
for always talking about what other people are
doing and the first prayer session I lead
in most prayer meetings is let's pray for
others praise the Lord I'm committed I believe
in what other people are doing but I
believe very strongly that God has given us
a very unique open door in this subcontinent
and others are not going to be able
to do it praise the Lord YWAM has
arrived in India we welcome them one team
has arrived 714 million great YWAM has arrived
and are praying about possibly starting up in
Pakistan we met with them had lunch with
them praised the Lord spent hours with Wakeley
they haven't made a decision to go yet
there's plenty of scope because most of these
groups by the time they get out to
the subcontinent you're talking about very small numbers
very small numbers you're talking about very limited
budget and every group that's out there minus
the cults they're needed there's no competition in
India you know 714 million so let's let's
praise the Lord for this open door let's
pray forth workers Matthew 9 this should always
be a standard prayer request in every meeting
even if we don't have prayer requests to
pray out workers into the harvest field and
I hope that every one of you hearing
this tape every one of you sitting in
this room will carefully search your heart carefully
look at your diary you got your five
year program carefully examine the world situation and
to see if the Lord may not have
you give a couple years out in this
part of the world so many of the
present leaders of OM working in every part
of OM the ships STL you name it
they got part of their spiritual foundation out
in the subcontinent we don't think that should
change and we're looking for feedback from you
as soon as possible as to when you're
planning on going you don't have to have
a call to go into the two year
training program in the subcontinent the call comes
when you're out there and if you want
a call I'll come to your house in
the morning and call you now people get
nervous when I speak like this they're afraid
somebody's going to feel guilty some leaders get
nervous that all their key men are going
to resign and stampede out to the subcontinent
that has never happened it's always the first
time because there's so many obstacles the church
has got to get behind you you've got
to see support come in you've got to
have at least some degree of health and
the Lord has to put his seal on
it and no matter what I say and
even if I do stand out in front
of your house and give you a cat
call in the morning you know if the
Lord doesn't put the seal on it we
don't want it we don't want it and
to get me to shut up all you
have to do is walk up to me
and say I'm 100% sure God has
called me to Wheaton finish you're right off
I don't want to talk anymore no that's
not what I meant to say no what
I meant to say was that when people
tell me they're 100% sure that's the
will of God I say great that's all
I want to hear but I can't stop
giving challenges I can't stop giving the Macedonian
call we're not talking about a missionary call
now we're talking about people who are already
involved in God's work they're already obeying God
and we're challenging them to go over to
another part of the world I can't stop
doing that simply because a few may feel
guilty a few more may get confused and
somebody else may do something that's perhaps considered
wrong in the eyes of some people because
we say and we teach and we believe
that people without Christ are lost and that
eclipses so many of the other arguments that
we keep coming up with and I just
pray that if you can't go you'll send
substitutes I had such a tremendous letter this
morning from one of my prayer partners he
said I feel a renewed commitment to make
money for God's work amen I needed that
letter this morning he can barely write, he
has very poor handwriting but I can see
that part and maybe God is leading some
of you into that that's STL's ministry to
some degree, STL is many things many things
STL would be a valid ministry if it
never sent a single penny to India without
question but when you can do both it's
always been my vision when you can do
both why give out tracts when you can
sell books and support a national worker full
time just on your book sales I mean
you know plus you can buy tracts at
the end as well and so I think
it's a double barreled cannon that we have
here at STL so let's pray for workers
let's be ready to go ourselves let's realize
this is probably one of the most unique
open doors in the whole world everybody today
is talking about China and maybe if we're
a little more faithful in reaching the countries
that God has opened like a great budding
rose in the springtime if we get off
our pews and into these areas where there's
a welcome and I'm going to talk about
that in a minute the welcome of O
.M. in Pakistan it's shattering I never fellowshiped
with so many bishops I never had people
so keen to have O.M. teams as
in Pakistan God has done in Pakistan in
three years what it took us 15 years
in India the credibility the foundation the churches
reaching out to us they've asked me to
return to the Lahore convention the biggest convention
in the nation the Karachi convention the biggest
convention in the southern part of the country
you know I don't believe they're just doing
that to be polite because they don't they
can't afford to operate that way but that
is even irrelevant compared to the welcome the
teams have received church leader after church leader
we had three or four major leaders receptions
church leaders came bishops came they said we're
happy here we want you here we like
the way you work we like this Mike
Wakely we like these three little sisters in
Raopindi plodding away a man comes and tells
me how his whole ministry has revolutionized through
these three sisters and how God called them
into full-time work through something that happened
through their ministry I think of the agony
we're going through right now in places like
Finland where the church is publicly announced against
us that's great real encouragement 90% of
the people in the Lutheran church the Lutheran
church has gone on record as being basically
against us and non-cooperation with the visit
of the ship you know I feel like
saying you know Finland go fly your kite
I'm going to Pakistan but I'm going to
go back to Finland in April and meet
with the church leaders and bow yes sir
yes sir I'm not a Lutheran but I
love Lutherans yes sir but you know I'm
not saying we shouldn't keep pushing into hard
places where they don't like us I'm not
saying that we're going to keep pushing in
Finland we're going to keep dancing the jig
in Norway we're going to keep crying out
for tent makers for Saudi Arabia we're going
to keep pushing people into Egypt even though
they get thrown out we're going to keep
sending a man to Turkey and watch him
get killed and watch him get sent out
but meanwhile for the great percentage of young
people who are not ready for those situations
especially at 20 years of age the average
age group of the people who come in
OM these blossoming budding roses reaching out their
what do you call them?
petals?
to touch you and bring you in that's
where we want to have the most action
alright let's go to prayer again and pray
for workers and pray for some of the
things that Daryl will flash up on the
screen let's pray two by two Amen be
seated since I won't be with you
on Friday morning as I'm on my way
to Germany for the weekend I've sort of
been trying to not only give prayer requests
but just share the report that I wanted
to share at that time I say that
because normally I wouldn't want to use up
so much of the time to share these
things let's just say a word about Nepal
I think it's good that we pray for
Nepal OM is more than anything else a
catalyst in Nepal there are ex-OMers in
Nepal that God's using we praise the Lord
for David Turner and his wife who really
seem to be ideal for Nepal willing to
grow slowly prayerfully I had time with two
men that are going trekking out into the
villages Urs and Heinz I think both of
them are from Switzerland actually and it was
very encouraging to hear about the word they
were able to get out I also had
time with the mechanics there it's really quite
an amazing maintenance base that they have in
Nepal at present and here again we need
to see a few people at least raised
up who have a specific burden for Nepal
or who want to plug into Eastward Bound
the program in the subcontinent for non commonwealth
people with a specific vision that part of
that time they would be in Nepal we
had some very good discussion about Eastward Bound
and feel in some ways we're more prepared
than ever to handle people in fact we
don't really have enough people because Tony Harrop
down in Sri Lanka wants them and of
course Mike Wakely in Pakistan wants them and
Dave Turner wants them in Nepal and yet
India is the priority they get visa extensions
then they go out and get another visa
and go back so that's another challenge for
prayer when people ask about Eastward Bound it
is a very unstructured program it's mainly how
can you say it's a system of trying
to give non-Commonwealth people a challenging and
fulfilling ministry during two years in the subcontinent
but it demands a high degree of flexibility
and more than just as much as it's
OM's training program it's God's training program which
means be ready for anything like standing on
a queue for a long time trying to
get a visa and then being told you
can't get one and being flown from one
country to the other and maybe even ending
up back on the Coventry immigrant team even
though you were thinking you'd be in the
subcontinent total flexibility anything anytime anywhere whatever the
cost that's what Eastward Bound is and it
will continue to go forward especially with the
people we have out there right now and
Nepal is part of that so is Sri
Lanka Tony Harrop in Sri Lanka technically is
not an OM field it's an area where
we have occasional ministry comes under Roger's leadership
but we would like to have a little
more happening in Sri Lanka especially if Tony
Harrop is willing to help oversee it I
can't get into that right now now I'd
like us to shift over to Pakistan my
visit to Pakistan was very different from my
visit to these other places because I was
going there for evangelism I wasn't just going
there to discuss things with leaders and we
had about 30 to 35 meetings I'm sorry
this isn't a little bit higher hold it
up if somebody could just come up here
for a minute hold this map up here
put this up put that briefcase up there
I've already mentioned that of course you're not
going to say it over there that's for
sure there's 93 million people in this country
some of you are listening to this tape
it'd be good if you could get a
map of Pakistan you'll find one in your
encyclopedia or on your world prayer map you
can write us if you don't have a
copy of one of those it started in
Lahore I don't want to go into a
lot of detail because of time but if
you can remember the women's team there very
small just a little team of two women
then there's the base team they operate separately
and it must be one of the busiest
of the smaller bases it must be one
of the busiest it's a book shop it
seems to be a question and answer place
hospitality center very very busy a very good
book room there in Lahore that's where Mike
Wakely lives he lives down the road the
Harris's just had a baby when we arrived
they've been having a lot of babies in
Pakistan three in one week I think two
weeks birth control has always been a big
thing in this part of the world as
you know but if you could pray also
for the St. Andrew's Church where we have
very good linkings we had a meeting there
you could pray for the cathedral the Harris's
go to the cathedral a young man who
studied at Oxford I don't have his name
Nazarius something like that he is the leader
the vicar of the cathedral I didn't get
to meet him I did meet the bishop
who came to our little reception it's amazing
the history of the church in Pakistan I've
been reading a lot of it in the
last few days an old book I found
in an Oxford library a man named French
especially who died in Muscat he started St.
John's College in Lahore and that's now where
the O.M. base is the college is
I think finished we had a little reception
and meeting a lot of the O.M.
study programs take place in this chapel pray
especially for those who are studying the language
I think one of the decisions I wasn't
sure whether Wakely agreed with me or not
but he seemed to agree that one of
the decisions is that we've got to put
a higher emphasis on language learning I know
he agrees we agreed also to move into
stage two in Pakistan in terms of looking
for people who are long term just like
Turkey like all Muslim countries that O.M.
works in we have the short term people
one, two years, three years, four years but
we want to see some long term people
and praise God one of the sisters has
been in Pakistan a couple of years the
day after we left Karachi she went what's
her name Qui she went to join a
senior missionary lady not with O.M. in
Quetta to work more on her language and
really with the goal of being open to
really long term work someone asked me in
Pakistan if we do longer term work what
are we going to be doing and of
course the idea would be to focus in
on the Muslims and really give the lion's
share of the time and effort in discipling
training working with Muslims short term people can
continue both strategies that is they're reaching Muslims
of course all the time and that's the
thrust of the work but they also work
a lot among the churches you must understand
the work in Pakistan is very much integrated
to the church the Lagos visit has made
a real impact in Karachi that's opened up
more doors with the church both the Catholic
and the Protestant church and gives them a
lot of work that is good we want
to do that but it can become at
times a side track from trying to reach
the Muslims because so many nominal Christians are
coming to the Lord and you want to
disciple them in fact one of the team
members in Karachi shared with me he said
well really to be honest my main burden
is the Roman Catholics which you know we
can't oppose that so in the long run
we hope that we can shift into seeing
even more effort right among the Muslims and
if there's any country in the world where
you can just go and talk to Muslims
and sell them literature and share Christ with
them it's Pakistan there are praise God a
number of other countries in that category we
travelled from Lahore with the Pakistan travelling team
down to a place called Faisalabad and it's
only had that name recently but I think
this is a relatively new name here it
is Faisalabad named after King Faisal of Saudi
Arabia excellent correspondence course ministry let us pray
specifically for the correspondence course ministry half of
all the students here thousands of students are
Muslims there's a correspondence school based in Faisalabad
there's a correspondence school based in Pindi and
another one I think based in Karachi there
may be others that I didn't find out
about we had a very encouraging time there
with students and I'd ask you to pray
for the student work the Christian Unions of
Pakistan we have a very close association with
them they are very very small I went
to their office in Rawalpindi former Bishop Chandu
Ray one of the first persons I ever
heard of in Pakistan fifteen years ago his
son is the leader of the Christian Union
movement not only in Pakistan but I think
he has one or two other countries he
is based in Karachi I think his name
is John Ray brother Ray pray if you
could remember one communist Chinese student that was
in that student meeting it was an evangelistic
meeting I shared a few thoughts about Karl
Marx he was amazed just amazed that anybody
when a Christian knew anything about Marx and
I agreed with how religion can be the
opium of the people and then I talked
about how Jesus Christ brought the most radical
new lifestyle the world has ever known and
I tell you he just about came out
of his seat I had lunch with him
he said I've heard anything like this before
started sharing all the problems in China this
is not working talked about the cultural revolution
how he was put on a farm for
two years most unprofitable ridiculous thing he ever
did his father was the top military man
how can he get more books etc there
are not many Chinese mainland Chinese in Pakistan
but he's one of them and I got
his name from my little mobile guest book
Ki Lim Wang Ki Lim Wang and he
went to Pakistan what a challenge with not
a word of English hardly a word of
English his first year he learned English not
used to nor do English and he's going
to graduate from one of Pakistan's universities some
of you have been thinking about university studies
this is the country Pakistan there you go
to China ok from Faisalabad we went to
Gujarwala which is the heart of Presbyterianism Presbyterianism
in Pakistan amazing place just unbelievable and one
of the things that makes it so amazing
are some of the worst divisions I've ever
seen in the churches anywhere in the world
this extremist fundamentalist man from America named Carl
McIntyre has just split the church there he's
got I don't know if he's aware of
it some of the most unbelievable rogues working
with him there's law cases you name it
they've got it and yet we met one
of the missionaries who's in the midst of
this he's been there 29 years and he's
just plotting on he's got he's been in
court and he's got bail on him he
said people threatened to kill him he's just
plotting on and I found out his wife
was the wife of Horace McGill one of
the first missionaries I've ever heard of after
I was converted from White Grove, New Jersey
Horace McGill who went to the Afghans working
in Pakistan and died very young I think
in his 30s polio and his wife then
remarried this man who's still there Mr. Old
pray for Mr. Old and Mr. Old very
good friends of O.M. Ken and Marie
Old there's a little seminary there I had
enormous freedom in the seminary I just completely
let loose I thought I was going out
of my mind things I said to these
seminary students and they accepted it the man's
asked me to come back there I think
it's next week I'm not going to speak
at the main annual gathering at the seminary
pray for that little seminary then the next
morning we had an evangelistic meeting about 200
technical college students really from the villages Mr.
Old because I'm a bit of a coward
I don't always give invitations he said look
give an invitation these young lads need an
opportunity to make decisions for Christ the YWAM
team is based there I had lunch with
them after an hour of evangelistic message to
all these young men in English Urdu I
gave invitation about 20 of them stood I
think quite a few for salvation pray for
the YWAM team as they follow up on
those young men we then had to get
out of town or go to the next
town and that meant Rawalpindi Islamabad where our
three sisters Molly and Esther and Sophia Sonia
are working they really would like to have
a few more recruits Wakely is one of
the few leaders anywhere in the world that
I have talked to that goes on and
on about not having enough women on the
teams I mean that is a revolution most
of them are always going about the same
thing it's like a broken record we need
more men you know the normal male chauvinistic
types Wakely women we need more women I
mean he wants men too but he knows
where the action is in the 20th century
I hope he doesn't hear this tape but
we really would like to pray specifically as
we go back to prayer for more women
and you know it's amazing I think about
50% or 60% of the women
there are from Malaysia and Singapore now that's
good but where are the rest of the
women where are the Canadian women are they
all on the farms where are the British
women keep in mind that Pakistan like India
even more so is four times easier for
commonwealth people you know those of us who
are non-commonwealth we have some blood on
our hands with Pakistan maybe on our finger
but if you're commonwealth if you're Canadian it's
up to here you've got to pray about
this place you know I don't want to
be too strong but the Bible is strong
and you need to pray open door you
know half the people in this country 93
million about half are women and men we
can't reach these people a lot of them
they come down the road they're like giant
turtles they're covered right from here down big
black mass peek-a-boo holes you know
if you think you can just walk up
to one of those and people are trapped
you'll lose your head because the husband you've
got to watch out for the husbands they're
usually about ten paces ahead of them and
they'll come back on you definitely you can't
use that method of distribution this is why
the orientation is so important but I really
pray that we'll see some more women dressed
out they have a men's team and a
women's team in Karachi they sometimes find the
street work very hard that's that's normal but
they are having a lot of contacts contacts
and they seem quite encouraged we were able
to stay with a man who is the
the responsible man for the British Council British
Council is not British Council the council is
a social services organization of the British Government
you can pray perhaps for this man Norman
and his wife Grace Willamott they were not
interested in knowing back here when they were
in one of my meetings and they just
want to be a help to the team
they were so kind to us welcoming us
into their home and it's amazing the way
the Lord has put some of these tent
makers he wanted to go to London Bible
College years ago and the door didn't open
he had been in the RAF and now
he's with the British Council with all kinds
of contacts across from his home is the
Karachi home of the sheikh of Abu Dhabi
a little multi-million dollar cottage the house
that the sheikh has just for his falcon
handlers would make anything in Bromley look pretty
dumpy unbelievable money has flowed into Pakistan from
the Gulf and a lot of these sheikhs
they like Karachi it's sort of their place
they go I don't know all the reasons
probably some of them aren't too good but
pray for that man as he meets with
so many people that somehow he may be
a demonstration of Christ and as they exercise
such a ministry of hospitality but I think
we're looking in Pakistan in the future for
people similar kinds of people that we're looking
for in the Arab world and in Turkey
long term people committed to Muslim evangelists and
there's just a wide open door in Pakistan
for that what more can I say time
is gone we need to pray I'd like
to just finish off this little report by
asking prayer for the Arab Gulf there are
many believers living in places like Dubai Oman
Kuwait United Arab Emirates Dubai is part of
that but they are most of them are
not Arabs there are a few believers of
Arab background but most of the believers are
Indians or Pakistanis and I believe the Lord
wants us to have a ministry of encouragement
and to some degree teaching that somehow these
people who are there working would know how
to communicate to their Arab neighbours and I
think we ought to pray because they are
examples of mono-ethnic churches the Kerala people
go to their Malayalam speaking Kerala church and
that's where I preached I preached at two
open brethren meetings in Oman among Malayalam speaking
Kerala people but they are brushing elbows they
are in contact with the Omani people there's
more freedom in Oman than some of the
other countries there's a pastor there with a
Dutch reform church there may be Christian reform
there are some who have professed faith very
unique country very unique country we can especially
pray for Joseph and Radha Kuruvilla former engineer
from the ship he works for one of
the most powerful sheikhs in the nation probably
number two man in the nation who's married
to the former wife of Lord Holmes I
think this is fourth or fifth wife one
thing I'd like to insert here for prayer
is the use of videocassettes these Arab countries
in that part of the world they are
really into videocassettes everybody's got a videocassette there's
a little landslide David Exo ever living in
Dubai videocassette recorder he's unemployed right now actually
he's sort of our key man in Dubai
we left there five of our English Arab
teaching cassettes each one of those cassettes has
five messages you can get a lot on
one cassette they were happy to get them
and said they knew Arabs believers people of
Arab backgrounds some of the Palestinians who would
be happy to go through that teaching the
Jesus film is there in Arabic videocassette some
are using that but it's all very very
small after the two meetings in Oman I
went to Dubai and just had one meeting
there that evening it was in the educational
building of the Holy Trinity Church where the
night before the elders were meeting with the
possibility of kicking out the pastor and his
name is Philip Sewell very dear brother the
vote went in his favor and he's staying
and God's really using him I was able
to visit by the way John Donald Patricia
Lee's brother used to live with him in
Edelstead here in Bromley and his wife and
she seems to have come into a real
experience of the Lord and things are happening
there in Dubai it's a very very very
western place it would be wonderful if some
of these people they're
so limited so limited all these people live
within a day of being asked to leave
the country so you know they're a little
hesitant to start speaking about their faith too
much and in Dubai just before I got
there a Pentecostal man who got a little
bit rambunctious was arrested for evangelism supposedly he's
also disgraced the name of Mohammed this has
immediately brought a spirit of fear over Dubai
people what's happening what's happening next and if
we could pray I ministered my most blunt
message in the whole trip was in Dubai
that and that seminary thing I referred to
but I just felt this was the last
night and gave an invitation and Christian leaders
stood to their feet to recommit their lives
and I just shared with them what real
persecution is some of the facts about China
about the Soviet Union about how the church
has grown and they understood it and I
think we really that very night saw a
spirit of fear broken in quite a few
people's lives that even though there are dangers
and problems and of course I emphasize being
as wise as possible in the witness and
maybe this man arrested wasn't as wise but
no matter what we must and we studied
Acts together we must speak for it let's
just pray Amen Amen