Salvation: A Local Brother

I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine righteous persons who have no need of repentance. Luke 15:7

Today is indeed a day of joy as one new believer took water baptism. This is the work of the Holy Spirit among the local people of Gurugram, whom the church has been praying for over a decade now. This brother first came to one of our gospel meetings last year. I remember preaching the gospel to him when he exploded with tons of questions in his mind. But at that time, I simply preached the gospel and led him to pray, ignoring the needless questions. 

Later, he opened up on many questions related to life, religion, science, and whatnot. But one of our brothers is his colleague who faithfully prayed for him, preached the gospel to him, and have been shepherding him. Gradually, the Lord began to do His work on him until yesterday I received a message from our brother that this new one wanted to be baptized.

My first question was to confirm if he truly believed into the Lord Jesus Christ. I got the answer in the affirmative. Today, the new one to be baptized and a brother came as appointed. Then I felt good to fellowship with him on some fundamental truth of the Bible concerning God Himself, His creation of man with three parts, the fall of man constituting him sinner, the truth concerning Jesus Christ as the only true and living God, His crucifixion, resurrection, and man's need to believe into the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and be born anew. He confessed that he believed into all these basic truths and also confirmed he believed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Then, we all called upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ together and led him to pray the sinner's prayer. Finally, we prayed for him and baptized him.

This new brother is a local brother with a Ph.D. degree and working as an Assistant Professor with a church brother who led him to the Lord. After baptism, over a cup of ginger tea which I made after a long long time, we fellowshipped about the Bible as he wanted to know more. I overviewed the Bible as the word of God and gifted him a copy of the New Testament, Recovery Version, for him to study and be constituted with.

May the Lord save his whole family as well and establish a group meeting in his home in Teekli, Gurugram. May the Lord save and gain many local families for His testimony in Gurugram.

Praise the Lord! There is a joy in heaven and also a joy among the saints in the church in Gurugram over this brother's salvation and baptsim.