Source: SAT-7, November 6, 2015<\/p>\n
As a drummer, Sadegh loved to watch Arab music on TV. He first came across SAT-7 by watching its Arabic music programs such as We Will Sing [featuring] popular Egyptian musician Maher Fayez.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I found myself watching several hours of SAT-7 although I didn\u2019t understand what they were saying,\u201d he remembers. \u201cThen I found the Farsi channel and started watching that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around this time, Sadegh [then living in Iran] received an email message from a friend in England that included a Gospel of John. As he read this, a flood of questions came: surely Jesus was more than a prophet if he raised the dead and healed people? But, when he raised this with his mother, she asked \u201cWho are you listening to now, what TV are you watching?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sadegh realized he would have to continue his spiritual search in secret. As he carried on reading the Gospel he had hidden beneath his carpet, his belief that God was aloof and distant was blown apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was when I came to this point in John 3:16. It said God so loved the world, I thought \u2018I am part of this world so God loves me. He loved me so much that He sent His Son.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI found myself on my knees,\u201d Sadegh says, \u201cI cried out to God: I want to live for eternity, I don\u2019t want to die.\u201d He describes how he felt \u201ccovered with love\u201d as he \u201cspent hours on the floor crying with joy. It was like something very deep coming out of my heart\u2014this root of selfishness, pride, hatred,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n
The old Sadegh was gone: The new one became a secret believer, constantly reading John\u2019s Gospel, but afraid to ask others about Jesus or try to obtain a full Bible because of Iran\u2019s secret police.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Interested in Persian culture? See 11 Persian Sayings that Make No Sense in English<\/a> (Chai and Conversation) and read about Amsterdam\u2019s Persian storyteller<\/a> (Global Voices). We also just picked up on a story that 450 new believers have recently been baptized in Iran<\/a> (GodReports).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: SAT-7, November 6, 2015 As a drummer, Sadegh loved to watch Arab music on TV. He first came across SAT-7 by watching its Arabic music programs such as We Will Sing [featuring] popular Egyptian musician Maher Fayez. \u201cSometimes I found myself watching several hours of SAT-7 although I didn\u2019t understand what they were saying,\u201d … Continue reading EUROPE: Iranian Musician Finds a New Song<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-6028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028","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=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}