Testimony - Christ Called Me Off the Minaret

[Angelina]

Christ Called Me Off the Minaret
Teresa Neumann : Jan 30, 2014 : Christianity Today
"Electric, the words leapt off the page and jump-started my heart. I could not put the Bible down. I began reading fervently …I found Jesus. To follow Him is worth giving up everything." - Nabeel Qureshi
http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=13252

 

[Mr.Bride]

This is absolutely beautiful...Reminds me of my testimony although he was a Muslim.

"I began mourning the impact of the decision I knew I had to make. On the first day of my second year of medical school, it became too much to bear. Yearning for comfort, I decided to skip school. Returning to my apartment, I placed the Qur'an and the Bible in front of me. I turned to the Qur'an, but there was no comfort there. For the first time, the book seemed utterly irrelevant to my suffering. Irrelevant to my life. It felt like a dead book.

With nowhere left to go, I opened up the New Testament and started reading. Very quickly, I came to the passage that said, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

Electric, the words leapt off the page and jump-started my heart. I could not put the Bible down. I began reading fervently, reaching Matthew 10:37, which taught me that I must love God more than my mother and father.

"But Jesus," I said, "accepting you would be like dying. I will have to give up everything."

The next verses spoke to me, saying, "He who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake will find it" (NASB). Jesus was being very blunt: For Muslims, following the gospel is more than a call to prayer. It is a call to die."

 

[Angelina]

Amen!

For Muslims, following the gospel is more than a call to prayer. It is a call to die."

...One of my Pastor's fave sayings: "you can't kill a dead man" ^_^