Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, we'll hear a clip from Paul's conversation with

Ruslan and Faina.

In this snippet, they discuss how significant it is to follow Jesus in their predominantly

Muslim country, and how doing so will cost everything.

To hear more from Faena and Ruslan, don't miss their entire episode on the Paul Trip

podcast, episode 389.

You can also watch the video on YouTube or Facebook.

Here's Paul, with Ruslan and Feina, on this week's connecting clip of the week.

Tell me what happens because you're this little Muslim star.

What were people around you saying because all of a sudden

there's a transformation taking place, you're less interested in this and you're more interested

in Jesus and the gospel. Yeah. So in our region, the majority is Muslim, right? And the Christianity

is 0.01 percentage. Can you imagine it's like very small? For example,

in Tajikistan we have 3,000 believers for all country. The country is so big, I mean, but there

is only 3,000 believers. And when you decided to follow Jesus, it cost you everything.

I mean, if you decided to say yes to Jesus, your relatives, your workplace, your school and your friends become against you.

Because the biggest sin in Islam is go against Islam. Yeah, so you become an outcast.

Yes.

And my relatives, they start to putting their finger on us and they start to talk about us.

And that was a big decision to follow Christ and of course imam was disappointed and

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