We taught a one-week intensive English course for adults. English instruction is a good venue to make acquaintances, present the Gospel, prove that Christians are not ignorant, and make ongoing relationships leading them to Christ.

The challenge is to help the participants know that we really care for them.

Knowing we are “religious,” they may hold their relational distance. We don’t want to give the impression that we just want “a few more notches on our Gospel gun.”

We openly tell them that we are here to help the entire person, mind and spirit included. We teach that God is the first giver of communication and language; that is, words and thoughts did not just accidentally come into existence.

Also, from the first chapter of John’s Gospel we explain that Jesus Christ, the living Word of God, came into the world as a foreigner and made himself like us to redeem us.

We are so thankful for the chance to enter these redemptive relationships.

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