Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Today, I get to go home.  The weather has warmed up so that the ice in Oklahoma City is melting.  I've been here a week getting everything together and got trapped.  It was pretty bad.  But not the kind of bad that builds up ice on tree limbs and breaks them.  Just the kind of ice on roads that will kill you if you try to drive in it.  Oklahoma weather at its finest.

I met a lady who was telling about an interaction with a Muslim person that she had met.  He said, "We believe in one God."   She answered, "So do we.  We believe that there is only one God.  I know that you think that we have three Gods: the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit--but they are one."

"How can that be?"

"Think of it this way:  Water can be liquid, steam, or ice.  But it is still water--in different forms.  We believe that the Father became a man--Jesus--died for our sins, rose again and indwells us in the form of His Spirit.  Three forms of the same God."

Muslims aren't allowed to research other religions, so if they learn something about Christianity, it's because we have found an appropriate way to share something with them.

1 Peter 3:15 "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear..."

You can't share if you haven't done your homework.  The key words in that scripture come in the form of a command:  "Be ready always".

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