Who, me?

“Hey, that Muslim girl is reading the tract that Brandon gave her!”

“Wow, she’s just pacing back and forth going through it.”

“I sure wish we had a girl on our team that could go talk to her.”

Suddenly I wished I was a guy. I was the only girl on the team that day at Michigan State University and they couldn’t have been dropping a more obvious hint that they wanted me to go talk to her.

I typically feel inadequate to speak to people about the gospel, I suppose that’s a good thing, but it’s not a really comforting thought when your about to talk to a girl who has been ingrained in her religion since the day she was born.

I whined a little bit, so the guys prayed for me and then I went off to talk with her. When I approached her I discovered that she had only gone through the first page of the May I Ask You a Question tract. She agreed that we are all sinners. Then we went to the next page and talked about how the wages of sin is death. She didn’t understand so I explained it and then she disagreed with me. She said that Allah loves us and when we do bad things all we need to do is make up for it by doing good things. I told her that you can’t make up for breaking the law by doing something good. I explained it with the illustration of breaking the speed limit and trying to make up for it by driving slower than the set limit – it’s just not possible. But I then went on to tell her how God showed His love for us by sending Jesus to pay for our sins. I probably talked about this for two minutes before she interrupted me and asked, “Who is this Jesus?” To say the least that caught me off-guard. So I tried my best to explain who Jesus is and God’s plan of salvation for us. The conversation ended when her friend called her.

She didn’t make a profession, but I know that sharing the gospel is never pointless (“So will My word which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” –Isaiah 55:11 NASB). I made sure to tell her the truth so that when she stands before God she cannot say that no one ever told her about Jesus and what He did for her.