TURKEY: We Have To Take Risks

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🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

“Brother Bayram” is back to finish the conversation we began last week. He came to the United States to further his education and start a business. 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.

Listen to the stories of people in Turkey Bayram has seen leave Islam behind and embrace Jesus Christ, the Son of God—and the persecution they’ve endured for making that decision. What are the truths that draw them? What are the misunderstandings of the gospel Christians can address with Muslims? How do new Christians in Turkey think about telling family members that they are following Christ?

Finally, Bayram will equip us to pray for Turkey, and for our Christian brothers and sisters there.

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

You can hear David Byle tell his story of persecution in Turkey here. 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	Do you realize how amazing it is that God is your loving father?
0:06.0	Brother Byron tells us about a man in Turkey who caught a sense of that wonder.
0:12.0	He was raised in a strict Muslim household, but then embraced the
0:16.7	gospel of Jesus Christ. He said he called his mother and he started talking about the love of God and Christianity and she got
0:25.0	upset and told him you know are you becoming a missionary machinery or something you know
0:29.6	he says no and it's not about that you know this is this is, wouldn't you do the same thing, he says, you know,
0:34.7	if you had a lost father and you found him,
0:37.7	wouldn't you grab him and introduce to others?
0:41.0	So that really touched my heart. Uh-huh. If you had a lost father and you found him after many years and his love
0:47.5	Wouldn't you grab him and bring him home and show him to everyone you know. Of course you would.
0:55.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:58.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
1:04.3	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today
1:09.5	in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear
1:13.7	their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. Right now on the Voice of the
1:18.0	Martyrs radio network. Last week here on Voice of the Martyrs radio
1:21.6	brother Byron told us some of what the Lord is doing in Turkey.
1:26.0	We heard how Byron came to know Jesus while living in the US
1:30.0	and how God called him to go back to his country and share the gospel.
1:35.0	We heard about the persecution and the restrictions that exist for Christians in Turkey
1:41.0	despite religious freedom being promised in the country's Constitution.
1:47.5	When we left off, Byron was telling us about a 26-year-old atheist.
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