An Impromptu Interview

It was last Thursday, while I was winding up the urgent things that needed to be done before I left for a week's ministry literature journey when brothers from New Delhi came to visit my family to interview my wife for a gospel propagation work. The burden is to hear from those who have served and who are still serving in India in the gospel move. This interview was concerning their living, burden, and the situation, perhaps, information or testimony to others to pray for India. Better would be that this will work out to burden many young saints to love the Lord and love what the Lord loves, to preach the gospel, and raise up the Lord's testimony as a preparation for His coming again. The series of interviews is title "Flying Eagles" translated into English, verbatim. 

As I welcomed and made arrangements for the hospitality to the visiting saints since they came to the literature office where the video recording of the interview also took place, I deemed it my responsibility to treat the saints well. I did my bit and was rushing to get ready to eat my lunch and catch my flight. Then I was informed that before I left, I need to be interviewed as my wife was also to be interviewed. At such a busy and tight scheduled, I still tried my best to be ready for the interview.

There I was, dressed up formally, and faced the camera for the interview alongside my beloved wife. The inward preparation I had was, I exercised my spirit, turning to the Lord, and let the Lord answer in my answering to the interviewer's questions. The first question was to describe how the Lord began His move in the North East, especially, the present day of the church in Aizawl. My innate reply was, it was the move of the Spirit, seeking and searching for the ones He had already predestinated. And I explained, to the best of my knowledge, how the Lord moved in the hearts of some seekers, through the ministry literature, The Orthodoxy of the Church by brother Watchman Nee. And explained further how this book which was translated to Mizo became instrumental in raising up a good number of local churches all over Mizoram. I also described what transpired when I first visited Aizawl in 2006, then in 2007, and how the church was recovered into the fellowship of the Body of Christ.

The second question was how I got married to a sister from Taiwan; what was my feeling when we went through the proposal, and how it all worked out that we both could get married and be brought together for the Lord's move in India. I gave the testimony of my experience of the Lord's was leading me in my marriage, and how the Lord did the preparatory works in me by dealing with my self with all its preferences and choices. And that how the Lord began to gain me even in my marriage for His testimony. I also testified to the Lord's specific leading in how I actually said amen to the brother's proposal for my marriage with a single word "amen". And how the Lord has been leading me on and on and blessed my family life till today, and that the Lord will do so in the coming days. 

This was my first impromptu interview with the historical fact as my objective description and my exercised spirit as my subjective expression. With this impromptu interview, I fulfilled my responsibility based on the brother's request. I hope this would mean something to someone, someday.