TURKEY: It’s Not About Arguments

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🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

“Brother Bayram” came to the United States to further his education. He started a business, and one day a Christian woman gave Bayram a New Testament. He began to read it, the beginning of a path that would lead him to faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Son of God.

It was a costly decision: his devout Muslim wife divorced him and won’t allow him to see their daughter. His brother had Bayram committed to a mental hospital—viewing anyone who would leave Islam as mentally unstable.

It has been a difficult road, but Bayram’s faith has only grown stronger as he has seen God work in his life and in his country. Listen as he shares the story of his journey to faith, and how his family pressured him to return to Islam and persecuted him for his Christian faith, and stories of those still meeting Jesus Christ in Turkey.

Bayram will encourage and instruct listeners about how we—like the woman who gave him a New Testament—might help lead Muslims here in the US toward Jesus Christ.

You can connect online with Brother Bayram and his ministry at www.albtci.org.

We’ll finish this conversation with Bayram next week on VOM Radio. Between now and then, you can hear David Byle tell his story of persecution in Turkey here: Part 1 and Part 2. You may also be interested in hearing American Pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife, Norine, tell their story of imprisonment and persecution in Turkey.

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0:00.0	Brother Byron met an atheist in Turkey who had studied philosophy and didn't believe in miracles.
0:08.0	They spent hours discussing the Bible, but it didn't seem to go anywhere.
0:14.0	Would you be discouraged if you were trying to share your faith in a situation like that?
0:20.0	Later that night, this atheist realized a relationship with God isn't about arguments or philosophies.
0:28.1	It's about knowing a person, the son of God, Jesus Christ.
0:34.0	Brother Byron picks up the story.
0:36.4	And he said he read more than 2,000 books,
0:38.7	but he never believed in miracles,
0:39.9	but when he prayed over him, something happened
0:42.0	and that night Jesus came to him.
0:46.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:49.2	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:55.2	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today
1:00.1	in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:02.8	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
1:07.8	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:10.4	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton and we are in our studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with a man we're going to call Brother Byron. He is from the nation of Turkey.
1:22.0	Byram, welcome to the nation of Turkey.
1:22.6	Byram, welcome to the voice of the Martyrs radio.
1:26.1	Thank you.
1:26.6	Thank you for having me here.
1:28.6	Byram, your story of coming to faith
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