Monday with Muhammad & Block Party

During our prayer walk today, we ran into Muhammad. Muhammad was sitting in his yard, with his friend - the name of his friend was impossible to understand, so he remains nameless. We approached Muhammad during our prayer walk with flyers for the block party, and he asked us what denomination we attended, we answered - after which he informed us that he was a muslim.

The conversation lasted around 50 minutes, during which we exchanged ideas about God, morality and politics. Fortunately, we spent most of our time talking about how a person finds himself to be 'right' with God. How can we be saved? Muhammad described his salvation system of works, and we offered to him our gracious God's system of forgiveness through justice via substitutionary atonement. It was a very typical gospel conversation with a Muslim, all the basic arguments were had, but one thing struck us more than anything else - we talked to him about the holiness of God and how the bible paints a clear picture that every human being born after Adam is wicked and corrupt to their core and can do nothing to please God, we explained that our bad will always outweigh our good - he was not thrilled with this idea. We prayed following our conversation with Muhammad that he would come to see how grave his sin is, and that he would repent and trust in Jesus.

Block Party!
Tonight we had our block party, it was awesome - we had way more kids and people than we've ever had before (in the past five years). We had prayed for that, especially as we switched our ministry for the week (in years past: soccer camp, this year: VBS). Many relationships were formed and we had 67 kids sign up for VBS! Praise God, I am excited to see what God does in all these kids and the families they represent.