Interesting story...
This week is the conference on Missions here at school. We have missionaries from all over the world here to talk to us and stuff. Well last night my growth group met with a man who works for a middle east missionary organization. He shared many stories with us about how God was working in the middle east. One however seemed especially amazing. It was about the Passion of Christ... Now before I lose everyone who is sick of hearing about the movie please read on to see how God has used this controversial film for his purposes... I don't know if you remember but when the movie was about to be released a rumor got started (a lie) that the film was anti - semantic. Well here in the US some people didn't want to see it because of that. However, in the middle east everyone was like "an anti semantic movie, I want to see that". All of a sudden movie theateres all through the middle east were showing it. These theateres were packed for weeks on end. Many of these theateres were in contries that are completely closed to the gospel. They are countries that Christians get killed in. They are countries that missionaries are not allowed in. They have the strictest islamic code. But they showed The Passion of Christ! Christians working in some of those countries had the opportunity to go to the theateres as the movie let out. People were crying. People were asking questions like "did he really say that? Did he really ask God to forgive those people who had beat him so brutally? Is this a true story? Where can I learn more". These are countries that Mission organizations have wanted to reach for years but were having great difficulty reaching because of laws in the country. But because someone said the movie was anit semantic the government allowed the movie to be shown and introduced countless muslims to the story of the cross for the first time.That story is amazing to me. It was nothing that anyone did! People had tried to act and had prayed for these countries for decades! However, God used a movie to introduce these muslims to the story of grace.
God used a movie that many Christians are unsure about to bring the gospel message into the lives of muslims and encourage them to ask questions about Christ. Their only knowledge of Christ is that he is a good prophet. Now many know that he died and that in his death he forgave others and that he claimed to be God. That type of grace is unheard of in the Muslim world!
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