Source: Eternity News, November 20, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy family came to Australia in 1972,\u201d [says Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel]. \u201cMy parents were Sri Lankan. My mother\u2019s family was Buddhist, and so my two sisters and I were raised as Buddhists in Australia, which was unusual then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn my third year at university, I thought I should devote myself a little to the study of my religion. So, I started privately reading Buddhist literature. I visited the temple. I developed my meditation practice. But in God\u2019s kindness, I\u2019d had Christian friends at high school and at university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI said to one of my friends, \u2018What\u2019s being a Christian all about?\u2019 And he said being a Christian meant he\u2019d \u2018lost control of his life to Jesus Christ.\u2019 Remember, I had devoted the year to serious study of Buddhism and was trying to develop, especially through meditation, control of my emotions and my ambitions and my desires, in order to be released from them. And here was my friend, who I respected, who said he\u2019d lost control of his life to somebody who lived 2,000 years ago!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read what happened next in the Archbishop\u2019s journey of faith<\/a>. Another article from Eternity News reports that Raffel is the first person of non-European background to hold his position<\/a>. Read his insights on sharing the gospel with South Asian migrants<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Eternity News, November 20, 2023 \u201cMy family came to Australia in 1972,\u201d [says Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel]. \u201cMy parents were Sri Lankan. My mother\u2019s family was Buddhist, and so my two sisters and I were raised as Buddhists in Australia, which was unusual then. \u201cIn my third year at university, I thought I should … Continue reading Australia: Why Kanishka Raffel Left Buddhism to Follow Jesus<\/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-12537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","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=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}