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Are You Afraid You'll Get Caught?
An American pastor once asked an Indonesian missionary who works among Indonesians but with a different people group from his own, “Are you afraid you’ll get caught?” Christian mission work in Indonesia has risks – sometimes from the government, radical Islamists, and/or even from one’s own friends and family.
As soon as the question was translated into Bahasa Indonesian, this missionary smiled enormously and said something in Indonesian. His wife, who works for the same organization, elbowed him and said something and then his boss said something and they all started belly laughing!
When the laughter died down, they translated the whole scene into English. When the missionary heard the question – “Are you afraid you’ll get caught?” – he smiled and said, “The worst can happen is I’ll go to heaven,” and his wife said, “You can’t go without me!” and his boss said, “Let’s all go together!”
Needless to say, the American pastor did not expect that response! The blessing of following Jesus was so strong that the Indonesian missionary’s gut response to a serious question about safety was JOY in knowing God. What a basis for serving the Lord!
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