This week has gone by as normal. I have had a chance to share my favorite verse in all, but perhaps one or two classes this week. I think it was a really good chance to show my students what the Bible is, many Japanese people just really don't even know what it is. To be honest, this is something I'm not used to. It is a bit of an adjustment to have to go from complete scratch in explaining things about Christianity. So even if I haven't really done a good job explaining even just what it is, I know that at least they have opened it for themselves and read it and heard it.
On Thursday I have a class with a woman named Sayoko. Well, normally, the class has several other students, but she was the only one who made it this week. At the end of the class, after I shared my favorite verse with her, she told me that she had been taking English classes with another woman from a Baptist church. That was interesting to me. It seems God is surrounding her with people to teach her about Himself. That woman had given her a Bible in Japanese, but Sayoko told me that she just didn't understand it and she doesn't understand things about God. I don't know if my response was the best, but I told her that for most people the Bible is hard to understand even for me it is. As I've thought about the conversation I hope I get a chance next week to ask her if she would like to understand it. If she says yes than I hope to pray with her to ask God to show her the truth about this book. But as with all things, may God lead me to do the right thing at the right time with the right person and that Satan would be kept at bay from distracting and stealing faith from those who are seeking for it.
Sayoko also informed me that her cousin's son, Kairi, is one of my students that comes to children's class on Saturday. She told me that he went to Africa this year and so is very interested in learning English. I thought that was so interesting and today I talked to Kairi about it. Maybe some day he could be a Japanese missionary in Africa. Let's pray!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment