Ok, I have a bit of a...dilemma...but first let me tell you about a giveaway that The Preachers Wife is doing! She has 5 books to giveaway by the amanzing...incredible...scholar and gentleman: John Piper!
What book is it, you ask? Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ!!! Even if I don't win this book, I can't wait to read it!
Anyway...on to my dilemma. I have a neighbor upstairs named (forgive the spelling) Shretta whose family moved here about a year ago from India. Since my husband and I keep such crazy hours and are rarely at home we have not gotten to know them as well as we'd hoped we would have.
I ran into her in the breezeway of our building yesterday. Ethan was being his typical self - running wild, back talking and not following directions and her little boy was as calm and as sweet as...well, no child I have ever seen. Anyway, while Ethan was running wild and I kept trying to get a hold of him to have him sit in time-out....Shretta finally got his attention and said, in a pretty think Indian accent: "Listen, God can't be everywhere. That's why he (He?) gave us mothers. You need to do what your mother says."
My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe she'd just said that to Ethan. I managed to hold my tongue and pray that the Lord would give me an appropriate thing to say at the appropriate time. Ethan, of course, went back to being wild and crazy and Shretta and I went on with our conversation.
In the middle of her inviting Ethan and me over for a playdate (date TBD) she stopped again (after I had already gotten onto him, but that's another post) to talk to Ethan and she said it AGAIN - "God can't be everywhere, that's why we have mothers". This time I piped up and said "Actually, Shretta, God is everywhere and can see everything. We're Christians, our God is omnipresent."
To this she said that she went to school in India at a christian conservatory but she is now Hindu.
Here's the dilemma - how do you effectively witness to a Hindu? I tried to look it up on http://www.carm.org/ (the best site on the planet for finding out about other faiths!). I Wiki'd it but it wasn't too informative.
Do any of you have tips?
3 comments:
GREAT question! I recommend visiting equip.org. That is the Bible Answer Man, Hank Hanegraaff...Ihave heard this exact question on his radio proadcast... I would just enter in into the sites search engine and dive in!
God bless-
Amanda
P.S. I posted my gift list if you want to check it out!
Eek, no clue. Good luck with that! Hmm....Now you got me to thinking.
i have an idea, get her talking about her christian education, it will get her mind rolling around in the truth. then pray, pray ,pray, and i will too.
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