Refugees

Dear Editor,As I read your publication through, I was grieved by the wording used and not used in the article, “Refugees at Our Door.” First, man can hear the good news, but he cannot open his own heart. Second, the simple truth is one who desires to experience God’s salvation can do so by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what disturbs in this article. By no means am I criticizing anyone for seeing the need of others and sharing the gospel with them. What disturbs me is, “open their hearts”; man cannot open his heart.“To experience salvation personally, stand up.”“Give his life to this King.”“I will pray with him.”“Each one prayed in his heart.”People across the globe have been given the impression, false, that if they stand, come forward, raise a hand, pray a prayer, they are saved and the Holy Spirit comes into their life.From Genesis, God has required of His creation only one thing; that is, to believe Him. Adam didn’t. Abraham did, and the fact that he believed God was counted to him for righteousness. It’s extremely important to know that God called and chose Abraham; Abraham only responded to God.The world is confused because the churches are confused. Church is about church; what it believes, its programs, its activities, and not Jesus Christ, even though He is mentioned.-L. Gillingham, WY


Arno's Answer:



I am in total agreement with your insistence that faith is the key to salvation. That stands to reason because by faith Eve and Adam lost paradise, and by faith we regain it.

The author of the article, “Refugees at Our Door,” is an Egyptian living in Germany. He is our full time missionary to Arab speaking people.

You write, “I was grieved by the wording used and not used in the article.” But I for one rejoice greatly, as does heaven when one sinner repents.

The fact that many Muslims, who are forbidden to change their religion at the risk of their lives, come to Christian meetings and actually accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, is decisive; there is no justification for critique.

Indeed, God called Abraham and he responded. Today, He calls the entire world, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

You conclude your letter, “The world is confused.” That is correct, but then you add, “because the churches are confused.” Your attempt to generalize all churches does not work because Jesus is building His Church, and the good news is whoever wants to belong to that Church only has to believe.

Midnight Call - 06/2016

Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.

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