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Hi, my name is Matthew. I work at the human service organization in Brooklyn, NYC. During one of our mosque events, when the Athan went off, which is the Islamic call to public prayer, Noura*, my co-worker, who identifies as Muslim, took some time in silence before Allah in the other room. I noticed that she was not really praying the traditional Muslim prayer. When she came back in the main room, Noura initiated a conversation, saying: “I don’t really pray, you know.”
I followed up, saying, “Why are you saying that?” She said, “I like to connect with God in my own way,” and then also added, “And I get confused sometimes thinking about religion.” Then Noura looked me straight in the eyes and asked me: “If Jesus is not God, then why is he the one coming to judge all humanity?”
This question gave me a wide door to share the full gospel right there in the mosque. I was wearing a bracelet that had the symbols from an evangelistic tool called “THE FOUR,” and I was able to use those symbols to share the four points of the gospel with Noura. She was following so attentively, and confessed that she is searching for truth, and she believes that God put me in her life to point her to him.
Later that day, I sent Noura an evangelistic video called “Falling Plates.” After watching it, she replied saying that it gave her a lot of comfort knowing God desires a relationship with her. One week after that conversation, I gave Noura a Bible. When she received it, she cried and promised to read it every day.
Noura did not have a radical change in her life, but her journey toward Jesus is steady and certain. Often when I see her in the office, she expresses that she is reading the Bible daily and she is falling in love with Jesus. And Noura also decided not to observe Ramadan this year, instead to focus on her journey toward Jesus.
Since this story, actually Noura transitioned to work for another organization in another state. But I trust that God will place someone in her life to continue to point her toward Jesus.
*Name changed for privacy.
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Hi! I’m Alex. And I’m going to share a story of how God helped me to talk about him with someone I had just met.
So, I just met this girl named Alexia and we started talking and I asked if she was interested in spiritual things. And she said, “Yes!” She seemed really excited and we went really deep, really fast. So, she loved talking about God and spiritual topics because it was nostalgic for her. She mentioned that when she saw a cross, she felt comfort and nostalgia.
With that, I asked if I could go through the Knowing God Personally booklet with her, which is a short gospel presentation, and she said yes. While doing that, Alexia mentioned that she had come from a religious background, that she had gone to church for a while, but that she had stopped.
And so, with that, it seemed that she knew some of what I was talking about when I shared the gospel with her. But she didn’t realize just how important Jesus was. And when I was sharing about Jesus, Alexia would say things like, “I love this! This is so good!” And it was genuine.
Finally, when we got to the piece of the gospel presentation that has a prayer, she mentioned that she didn’t want to accept Christ right there and then. She said she needed some time to think about that. But even with that, she gave me a big hug, which I totally did not expect. And she said, “I hope I see you again.”
And, I did see her again. We ran into each other a week later. And she shared — after another big hug — that she had been thinking about the gospel and that she had kept the Knowing God Personally booklet on her nightstand. So, she was seeing it every day and thinking about the gospel every day.
So that was just really sweet and so amazing to be a part of God’s plan and what he’s doing in people’s lives — especially with someone I had just met.
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Hi, I’m Jodi, and I’ve come to believe that God opens doors when we least expect it.
I went over to our neighbor Doug’s house to watch football as we usually do. And I knew he had just returned from visiting his 89-year-old parents, and that it might be the last time he sees his dad, for his life was coming to the end. So I asked him, “How was your trip with your dad?”
And he said, “It was good, we got to spend some good quality time together. My mom was there most of the time, holding his hand. And at one point I overheard a conversation. My dad said, ‘Honey, I’m not sure that I’m going to heaven.’ And my mom squeezed his hand and said, ‘Oh, honey, you’re a good man.’”
And Doug said he didn’t know what to say. So he looked at me and said, “Jodi, what would you have said?”
And I responded, “Well, I probably would have read Romans 10:9 to him out of the Bible, that says, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, that you will be saved.”
Doug’s response was, “Is that it? That’s all you need to do?” And I said, “Yeah, that’s what the Bible says. So I probably would have asked him if he believed that and then prayed with him.”
With tears in his eyes, Doug said, “Wow, I need to go call my mom.”
So, when I least expected it — watching football on a Sunday afternoon with a neighbor that doesn’t invite spiritual conversations very often — God opened a door for us to have that great spiritual conversation.
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Do you ever feel nervous when you think, “This might be a moment where I could share my faith,” and you kind of clam up and wonder, “What am I going to say?”
You know, one of the things that I do is I pray. I just say, “Lord, as I’m with this family member or a friend or some stranger on a plane, if there’s an opportunity to talk about you, I pray you’d open up the door for me.” And then I can just sit back and know the Holy Spirit’s working and that as I talk to someone the Holy Spirit is already prompting the conversation and working in their heart.
So whether that’s sitting on a soccer field watching my son play soccer, or whether that’s traveling on a plane, there are opportunities to talk about Jesus. And that’s what I love so much about GodTools. It provides both training and simple gospel presentations that I can memorize or share on my phone.
I can think of two situations where God just opened up doors. One was in the summer when I was with my son and he was playing soccer. I had an opportunity to talk to a dad who was struggling with different health issues with his son, and just talk about praying and asking him how I could pray for that.
And that opened up the door for him to share about his background. And even though he was originally from a Muslim country, he was exploring who God is. So I just basically shared with him how God loves us, how Jesus died in our place for our wrongs or sins, and how through trusting him, God opens up the way to know him personally. And so that was an opportunity just to share right while I was watching my son play soccer.
Similarly, I had an opportunity on a plane where the person was sharing about the spiritual experience he had as part of a training with the government of Canada. It was part of an indigenous experience he had. And again I just had an opportunity to share about how God can be known personally and use that as a launching pad to talk about faith.
And so, I believe you can too! God is at work all around us, we just need to trust him and open our eyes to see what he’s doing.
Hello, everyone. My name is Ewen, and I’m Vietnamese.
So I know about GodTools when I was in my third year. At first I found it very interesting and convenient for me to share the gospel without a booklet.
So when I tried to tell the gospel — the first time I used GodTools was to call my friend. So I called my friend and I shared my screen, and I started to share step by step from the first principle to the fourth principle. And that friend received Jesus.
And I had the motivation to share the gospel to other people. And one of the stories is that one of my friends, in Germany, we just know each other by a mutual friend. But one day he asked me about God.
And I had a chance to share my screen and use GodTools to show him how God loves him. So I told him to install the app and he can discover it by himself. So after that he received Jesus by himself. And he came back to me and he said that I just received Jesus by reading the prayers from the GodTools.
Many friends in my university also received Jesus through GodTools during the pandemic, because we were all social distancing in Vietnam.
So that is my brief story about how I used GodTools to share the gospel.
Hi, I’m Luke Chain from Myanmar. The last two years there was a true crisis in our country: Covid and (indistinct). At that time we cannot go outside and the internet connection was not stable. But we have a good fellowship with our neighbors.
One of our neighbors is an officer of his company. I shared with him the goodness of God. He has many questions, and I said this to him, “You should read the Bible.”
Last month we met again. For me it’s very hard to meet with him because he’s a very busy man. We greeted each other and, “Long time, no see, my brother.” He said, “Yes,” but he said again, “By the way, I am reading the Bible that you suggested.” (I’m surprised, because he is a Buddhist.) And then, “I’m touched in my heart [by] the verse that said: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ It is a very particular way. Even if we cannot go outside, we can show our love for our neighbors.”
I said, “Of course.” But he said again, “But I don’t really understand the meaning that you should love your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul.” I said, “Okay.” I opened GodTools from my phone and I shared with him the gospel.
He’s really interested and I do believe that God touched his heart and God’s really working in his life.
Thank you very much.
God bless you.
We are Chris and Elizabeth McKinney and we’re going to share a story about our neighbor.
We live in Columbia, Missouri and it can get really hot and humid in the summers. We have a big backyard and I have a push mower, so obviously our neighbors have seen me struggle to mow my yard in the summer. So we got into a conversation with Mary, who recently had someone helping her with her lawn. That person was not able to help her anymore, and she has really bad grass allergies. So she said, “Hey, would you be willing to mow my lawn using my riding lawn mower, and then you can use that to mow your lawn as well?” And it was like the clouds parted, it was like, “Yes, that would be an incredible gift to me to get to mow your lawn and mine with your riding lawn mower.”
And one of the things we learned really early on as we started neighboring was just the importance of mutual giving and receiving in relationships with our neighbors.
Mary was super generous towards us. She would give us her hand-me-downs for our kids, and toys. So we wanted to also be able to be there for her, whether it was a meal in a time of need, or mowing her lawn, or even just providing some spiritual input or encouragement. For instance, when she was going through a hard time, inviting her to come to church.
So what started as both of us having a need, whether for mowing their lawn or whatever it was, really turned into us both ministering to each other.
Hi, my name is Ben.
A few weeks ago I was working on a house project. So I went to a home improvement store to get what I needed. But before going in I just sat in my car to have a few moments alone. Well that did not last long because the man who parked next to my car opened his door and hit my door.
Naturally I was a little surprised, and upset. But to even more surprise — he was kind of frustrated that I was even concerned. He kind of shook his head, mumbled something under his breath, and tried to just get in his car and leave.
I remembered going through a GodTools lesson on hostile conversations. And I asked him this question, “Did I do something to offend you?” And he said “yes” and that people make too big of a deal about small things.
Even though he was the one who hit my car, I swallowed my pride and said, “I’m so sorry for offending you. I actually agree with you. But what do you mean by that?”
He ended up sharing that he had a friend who passed away the night before. So immediately I recognized why he was responding the way he was responding. He was angry, and sad.
So I just asked him a few more questions and listened. I was even able to ask a few questions about his own spirituality, his faith background. Because usually these events bring up questions about one’s purpose in relationship with God.
By the end of the conversation, the man I was talking to at the beginning was totally different than at the end. It was a pleasant conversation. He ended up even apologizing for his response and thanked me for listening.
What I learned is that just with a few questions and an apology you can diffuse a hostile conversation. You never know what battles a person is going through in the moment.
And so, that is my conversation story.
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