Gospel Friend: A Family

One day during the propagation period I took along with me three sisters who could neither speak English nor Hindi for gospel preaching. I took them in my team on purpose to encourage them to function and to enjoy the gospel preaching in India. As we started for the door knocking, the Lord led me to a particular street. Generally, we would start knocking from the first door on that street. But the innate leading of the Lord within me was to go further to the end of the street. As we did so, the last house on the street was the first door we knocked. 

An elderly man came out and questioned our intention. I gifted him a gospel tract and began to explain but he interrupted me. To my surprise, he invited all of us to sit on his garden lawn for more intimate discussion. Then he began to preach to us his beliefs and praised his religion. Then I jumped in to declare that there is only one God, that God has no religion, religion is only formed by man to quench his thirst for God, and that this one true and living Giod is Jesus Christ. I continued to preach the gospel, expounding the matter of man's fall. At this juncture, the old man was completely subdued. He confessed that man is full of sins and there is no solution to this problem of sins. Nevertheless, I explained that inspite of man's sins, God loves man, became a man in Christ Jesus to redeem man, save man, and make man the same as He is, in life and nature. Then God who is love can now impart His love to man, so that man can genuinely love God and his fellow human being with the love of God. This simple truth completely subdued and convinced him.

Later, his wife, out of curiosity joined us in the home meeting. I repeated the entire gospel as presented in The Mystery of Human Life and led both of them to call upon the name of the Lord and pray the sinner's prayer of confession, repentacnce, and believeing into the Lord Jesus Christ. A few minutes later, their daughter in law also joined us, and I had to again repeat the gospel, this time gifting her a New Testament Bible and requesting her to read John 3 from verse 15 onwards. She kept reading until the end of the chapter. Then she acknowledged that she like the word of God so much.

The home meeting was so enjoyable to all the sisters and also to the family. They invited us to enjoy authentic Indian masala tea. As we all drank the tea our relationship became much sweeter. The atmosphere was full of peace and joy. They then invited us to enjoy lunch with them as well. So we all ended up spending over two hours with the family. They again invited us for a special Indian lunch with their family the day after. We went to enjoy another lovefeast with the family with a time of home meeting. In addition to the family receiving the gospel, the sisters in the gospel team also enjoyed the new ones' hospitality with an authentic homemade Indian spicy food. The sisters also learned how to prepare an Indian meal. It was a wonderful and enjoyable time of gospel home meetingg.

May the Lord preserve the entire family for His testimony in Gurugram!