"The Qur'an is a Lie"

On a flight from Dubai to Jeddah, I noticed a Sudanese man sitting near me who looked like he was from one of the Arab tribes. I greeted him and told him that we lived in Khartoum for 2 years and that we had been praying against the current, devastating civil war in his country. He is from the Jaliyin tribe, one of the largest of the Sudanese Arab tribes, with a combined total of 33 million with few known believers among them. Before I could engage him in gospel conversation, he invited me to dinner the following night. 

At dinner he told me that he had left Islam years ago, knowing that "the Qur’an is a lie". As a successful businessman, he seemed to think that Christianity is better than Islam because the Christians he knows are more honest in their dealings than the Muslims he knows. I told him that, while this may be true, all of us are sinners in need of forgiveness from a holy God, who paid our sin debt at the cross. He said that he was interested in learning more if I could connect him with another Arabic-speaking Christian in Jeddah. The Egyptian brother with whom I connected him seems to be hesitant to contact him. Will you pray for both of them now?

There are so many physical needs among all Sudanese refugees who have fled the war in Khartoum. Several Sudanese brothers, Egyptian brothers, and Western missionaries in Cairo are talking about how to reach the least reached of the Sudanese refugees… the Arabs… through both humanitarian aid & social media outreach. Please pray that this collaboration will lead to more Arabs from Sudan clearly understanding and believing the gospel, and that reproducible churches would be planted among them.