We Need to Deliver the Gospel!
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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.
Well, good morning podcast world and welcome back to yet another fantastic, super awesome, blessed podcast episode from this season, Loving Your Muslim Neighbor. Now, we've been talking about this over the past couple of weeks on, you know, why we should love our Muslim neighbor. We've also hinted on why we need to go forth and preach God's word. Now, we are privileged to have the author of this book with us, Loving Your Muslim Neighbor, Mr. Timothy Harris. Now, with that being said, we're just going to go ahead and dive right on in. Now, if I'm not mistaken, you went to the Middle East recently, did you?
Hey, Brandon, good to be with you again, dear brother. Yes, I just returned about two weeks ago from a wonderful trip to a country that Miriam and I dearly love, the country of Jordan in the Middle East.
Nice. I don't want to get too detailed because I know, you know, mission work is very... uh, secretive, but not secretive. If you know what I mean, it's kind of like, it's kind of like a CIA mission, but, uh, uh, Christians in action, by the way, is what CIA means.
There you go.
Um, so what was your, your overall goal in Jordan?
Yeah. So just a little background. Um, my wife and I have been going to the middle East since around 2005 and And in 2000, and I think it was 2012, we met this amazing group of men in the country of Jordan. They have their own NGO. These guys are Arab Christian men really devoted to Jesus. And their ministry really is to help refugees that come to Jordan, refugees primarily from Syria but also from Iraq and Yemen. And so, Brandon, what they do is they just really help these refugees in super practical ways. You know, like, let's say it's the wintertime. These people have no money, so they need blankets. They need little stoves, little kerosene heaters, stoves, and kerosene itself. They just need so many things. In the summer, it can be sweltering. They need fans.
And they need help often with rent and with food and just everything. So what I do when I go over, and Miriam, when she can go with me, we just hang out with these refugees. We go to their homes. We take them food. We sit with them. We listen to their stories. And then with the leading of these three groups, Arab Christian men, we share the gospel as opportunities arise.
Nice. That is awesome. So, well, let me kind of get a lay out of the land for a second. How did it feel or how did it look in the Middle East?
Well, Jordan is a really wonderful country and by and large, super safe. People always say, are you afraid to go there? No, Jordan is very safe, and the king and the government there have done a good job of that. And so the lay of the land is really, you've got a country that is almost half Palestinian people since 1948 when they fled. Basically, as Israel was being started, they fled. They had to get out. And then many more people. So you've got a country that's about half Palestinians. And then you've got the Jordanians. And then you've got this incredibly huge influx of these refugees from the civil war in Syria. And then all the issues that have happened in Iraq with ISIS, with Al Qaeda and many other groups.
And then you've got the Yemenis flooding in now more because of the civil war there. So it's a safe country. It's a crowded country. It's a poor country. They don't have oil and gas. They don't even have much water. But we just love the country. It's very raw. It's very, you know, down to earth. It doesn't have the kind of pretentiousness that you find in the Gulf countries. Countries when we have traveled there like Qatar or Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, it doesn't have that kind of wealth or outward beauty and money. So it's just a down-to-earth country with down-to-earth wonderful people.
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