Crossing Cultures: Compassion and Conflict in Muslim Outreach
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The Ear, Evangelical and Reformed, Christian Podcast. Welcome to The Ear, the Evangelical and Reformed, a Christian podcast that urges you to think deeper and draws you closer to God through faith. Through powerful sermons, teaching segments, and discussions, The Ear hopes to give you a different perspective on secular topics from a Christian worldview. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Please welcome your host, Brandon Queen.
Good morning, podcast world, and welcome back to yet another vibrant, excellent, cool episode from my new season, Loving Your Muslim Neighbor. This season is based on a book written by Timothy and Miriam Harris. Now, what I love about this book is it is actual stories that are tangible, that actually happened in my lifetime, if you will. And now we're able to take these stories and and put them in a podcast form so that our listeners can hear why we should love our Muslim neighbors, why we're ordered or called by God to love our Muslim neighbors, and why these stories can help us when we encounter Muslim people as Christians following Jesus Christ. Without further ado, welcome back to the podcast, Mr. Timothy. How are you doing today?
Great, Brandon.
Always good to be with you, brother. Awesome. As I always say, I am really, really enjoying this season. We are, I think, six or seven episodes into the season and it is going pretty well.
Hey, praise God, man. I hope that your listening audience is getting more and more of God's heart for lost people and particularly in this case for Muslim people.
Amen. I love it. I love it. Now, last week we did and I like the format so much better than what I've been doing. We we pull three stories and we talked about those three stories. I want to repeat that this week because the three stories that I read are good and I think they should be shared in detail. So if you are a book owner and you have a copy of Loving Your Muslim Neighbor, I'm going to be starting on page 145, which is chapter twenty nine. And the title of that chapter is Helping Desperate Syrian Muslim Refugees. So thank you to my listeners for listening to the pain of these Muslim brothers and sisters. So without further ado, Timothy, can you tell us about this particular chapter?
Yeah. So in 2012, the Lord just opened up a whole new chapter. aspect of our ministry to muslim people and it was refugees and it was refugees that we would meet as we would travel to a certain country in the middle east and so man i tell you brandon we were just kind of blown away by by listening to these people for example the first story i tell um in this chapter is about um a muslim syrian man named malik malik um had lived in Syria, and not long after the civil war started there in 2011, he dared to lower the Syrian flag. It was on a flagpole on top of a building, and he dared to lower it and put up a flag of one of the resistance groups. And so the Syrian army very quickly grabbed him, imprisoned him for a year and a half.
and tortured him terribly for a year and a half, so much so that they actually threw him out. He doesn't know exactly. He thinks it was kind of like a pile of trash, but they threw him out for dead or to leave him to die, and somehow, someway, he has no idea to this day he wound up waking up in a hospital in an adjoining country. Um, yeah, he lived on the very close to the border of an adjoining country, but he doesn't know how he even got to this other country. Woke up, um, once he was able to called his wife, she thought he was dead. I mean, there was just that shock amongst his family. And, um, And so he's just one example of a refugee that we talked to, and we've talked to maybe hundreds now, that God then took that suffering and brought them to Christ. So can I just share briefly how that happened with him?
Yeah.
Okay. So what happened to Malik was I met him with one of our sons. We were traveling together to do a trip to work with these refugees. And I met him in 2014 and I shared the gospel with him, but he just wasn't ready for it yet. He just he was so depressed and unable to use his hands and just from the torture because they told him because he took down that Syrian flag.
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