{"id":8891,"date":"2019-11-06T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T18:04:16","slug":"east-africa-from-islamic-scholar-to-follower-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"EAST AFRICA: From Islamic Scholar to Follower of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Open Doors, November 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbdul Razak\u201d is an Open Doors trainer who lives in East Africa\u2014but he has not always followed Jesus. And he did not accept Jesus easily. His journey was long and tumultuous, and worsened by Christians\u2019 inability to answer his questions about the faith.<\/p>\n<p>But the Holy Spirit made the words of John 3:5 (\u201cVery truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.\u2019\u201d) stick in his heart, and prevented him from giving up his search for truth.<\/p>\n<p>Today the frustrations that made his road to Jesus so difficult drive his passion to equip Christians to defend their faith\u2014and to offer the best possible help to Muslims seeking the way, the truth and the light.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/stories\/in-east-africa-a-hard-road-from-islamic-scholar-to-follower-of-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/stories\/in-east-africa-a-hard-road-from-islamic-scholar-to-follower-of-jesus\/\">Read this man\u2019s story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Open Doors, November 4, 2019 \u201cAbdul Razak\u201d is an Open Doors trainer who lives in East Africa\u2014but he has not always followed Jesus. And he did not accept Jesus easily. His journey was long and tumultuous, and worsened by Christians\u2019 inability to answer his questions about the faith. But the Holy Spirit made the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EAST AFRICA: From Islamic Scholar to Follower of 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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891","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=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}