Who was right? Which holy book contained God’s message? The Bible or the Koran? How could we know? What was the proof? Both were beautiful books. This is God’s word!” I insisted, indicating my Bible. “It is the Koran, the word of God as given through His holy prophet Mohammed!” they responded. This is God’s word!” And they showed us their Koran. “Oh, no,” they retorted, “that is not God’s word. “The Bible, God’s holy word!” we replied. “What is that book that you are reading from?” they asked. “Can you prove those things?” they asked. We did our best to convince the Muslims that Jesus Christ is God’s Son and that He shed His blood and died for the salvation of everyone who would believe in Him. Muslims reasoned: “How do you know that Jesus Christ is God’s Son or that He was raised from the dead?” They believed that He was a good man, even a prophet with some healing power, but not that He is the Savior of the world, that His blood was divine-and certainly not that He is risen from the dead. When we preached or taught about Jesus Christ, Hindus kindly accepted Him in theory as another good god to worship along with their other deities-but no change resulted in their lives. We led a few souls to Christ, but for the most part our mission was a disheartening experience for us. Supernatural confirmation of our preaching was not witnessed. But His words these signs shall follow them that believe (Mark 16:17) were beyond our grasp because we had not yet learned that miracle faith is simply acting on God’s word of promise. He had said to go into all the world (Mark 16:15), and we had obeyed. We did not comprehend the miracle part of Christ’s commission. Our Dilemma Among Eastern Religionsĭaisy and I went to India when we were only twenty and twenty-one years of age. When the people receive Christ, they no longer cling to fetishism and idolatry they no longer trust in graven images for protection from evil spirits. Sometimes we have had to carry bags of charms and fetishes away from the campaign grounds and burn them, as Paul did (Acts 19:18-19). As people learn of Him and how to receive Him into their lives, they embrace Him and become His followers, abandoning superstitions, witchcraft, and other faiths. We lift up Jesus Christ and His loving power. We never preach against superstitions, other religions, or against other gods. In nation after nation, we have proclaimed Christ and His love. We have proven that once people are offered an opportunity to hear the Gospel in simple language and in demonstration of the Spirit and of power (1 Corinthians 2:4), they are eager to receive Jesus Christ. They seek God but do not experience Him in reality. They pray in many different ways, but do not receive answers. They search for truth but are unable to find the peace that they yearn for. LaDonna, have been the same as those conducted during our early ministry back in the forties and fifties-the same strategy, the same messages, the same hunger, the same multitudes, the same miracles, the same results.Įven though we human beings come and go, the Gospel is the same in any generation when proclaimed in the power of the Holy Spirit.Īround the world, we have proven that people of all races, religions, and creeds want to know that:Īlthough people have many forms of worship, superstitions, ideologies, and religions, their spirits remain unsatisfied without Christ. Our most recent crusades and those of our daughter, Dr.
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