Source: Christian Aid Mission, August 4, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It happens from time to time, but it had never happened for one leader of a ministry based in the Middle East\u2014each of two Muslim relatives finding out the other was secretly seeking Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a country undisclosed for security reasons, a 22-year-old Muslim recently passed by the local ministry\u2019s church site and picked up a New Testament from the stack outside available for the taking, the leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe took it home, secretly read from it, and hid it, because he feared what his family might do to him,\u201d the leader said. \u201cHe thought for sure that if they saw him reading a Bible, they would get so angry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meantime, his 24-year-old brother was watching the same ministry\u2019s gospel messages online. He saw a video on basic Christian doctrines on social media and secretly put his faith in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full story<\/a> includes several other encouraging accounts about the gospel going forth and a description of some current ministry approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also Unable to Trust Family Members, Milad Can Only Trust the Lord<\/a> (Help the Persecuted). What a power-packed headline! You might also be interested in another story about God revealing himself to a Muslim man<\/a>, in this case through a remarkable dream (Beyond).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Christian Aid Mission, August 4, 2022 It happens from time to time, but it had never happened for one leader of a ministry based in the Middle East\u2014each of two Muslim relatives finding out the other was secretly seeking Christ. In a country undisclosed for security reasons, a 22-year-old Muslim recently passed by the … Continue reading Middle East: The Gospel Overcomes Barriers and Reaches Brothers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}