Is really great to see a rise in questions coming in from India as a podcast spreads globally.

Here's one, Dear Pastor John, my name is Prey Deep and I am from India.

My desire and burden is to work among Muslims and looking at recent events in the Middle

East especially in Syria, Iraq and Egypt under ISIS.

My heart is troubled when young people are joining ISIS and many are ready to lay down

their lives for this false cause.

There is a kind of fear in my heart and a desire to do something about this.

My question is, why do you think ISIS is so appealing to young people and what is the

church's response?

I have only read one article about that issue and the point of the article was to debunk

the notion that ISIS is prospering because of its appeal to the poor as a way out of poverty.

And I think they were right to debunk that idea because we know, we know here in Minneapolis

and people know around the world, India and elsewhere, that's too simplistic.

A lot of people are being drawn into the sway of ISIS who are not at all poor.

And from London or the coming of Minneapolis or the coming of Mumbai and they're not

poor.

So what else might be going on?

So I think that since I've only read one article, I'm not an expert in Islam or international

affairs or politics or anything like that, I think the contribution I might be able to

make is simply to draw attention to three texts that I think show something about the

human heart that ISIS is tapping into.

Number one, John 16, verse two, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think

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