Be Jesus Like Gospel Preacher

Bangladesh is a multi-cultural different religious country. We have a Major in Muslim than Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and Other different ethnic tribes with different deities. As my few years of mission experience in the gospel preaching and discussing with many well-experienced evangelists (working in the different tribes) I have come to know that it is very hard to make them understand the real meaning or the value of the blood of Jesus Christ. Also from the above study, we understand how Satan uses Creator God’s word to make most of the human race his follower. 

From my personal observation and experience, it is also clear to me that an unbeliever of Jesus even doesn’t understand what we are talking about if we tell the value of the blood of Jesus. After a long observation, it became clear to me that most of the time they don’t understand our gospel presentation as it is not comparing with them. Not only is it in language but also for the misleading faith of them. When we are giving anyone first time the gospel we really give or teach the value of blood in biblical terms, which most of the time became ununderstandable to them. It became to them a hard food for children. Moreover, if they have their good religious education that it became harder for them to understand the gospel as our presentation.

But as for my experience first, they need infant teaching such as rather than telling what the value of the blood is, we should tell who Jesus is through their faith. After that in the next step, if we tell the value of the blood to them then they realize what it really means.

Only in this way it found that they do not criticize or talking too much against the teaching of the bible rather saying ‘oh I see that is your faith’. Whereas the people accept or not, that will come from God, but our job as the gospel seller is to make them clear so that they can understand the true value of the blood of Jesus!

For this I went in-depth to find out why they cannot be clear with our presentation when we talking to them. From my practical experience, I have found it happened because that we gave direct references from the bible from the first talking that they do not believe. For example, when I gave the gospel to a Muslim some said, how is it possible that our sin will be carried by Jesus. It is not fair to give my sin to another person. Allah is not that much unjust because in their belief they count Christ as human. So it is very hard to make them understand the gospel in ours way. 

Even when I talked with Hindu or Buddhist, they say we accept him as a good teacher or one of our deity but as our Bhagaban said that we can clean our sins through good work. Sometimes I found they did not utter any word as they respect me as I am older than them, but later I found they really did not understand what I talked to them. It was not clear to them means it made no sense to them. 

As has been studying day by day I realized that Satan really has made them blind through their heretic teaching that they cannot understand us but they feel that we are giving them the wrong information. The real issue in the heretic teaching what is looking like the same issue but totally explain in the wrong or different way, such as for us Jesus will come to take His bride but for the believers of Islam, it is Jesus will come as the follower of Mohammad. Thus, Satan confused all Muslim communities with the Jesus faith. Also to others, Jesus is the good teacher or one of their deities.

To solve this critical problem for this I will try to find out how can we teach them or make sense to them about salvation through Jesus Christ. And also try to find out through the teaching method of Jesus as He is the best teacher of all. From His teaching I identify three pictures of His teaching.

Firstly, if He wishes to give any massage not ‘let to understand the Jews community’ He gave a mysterious example of divine knowledge based example. Such as He said, ‘I will destroy the temple and within three days I will rebuild it’. It was a very highly thought teaching that Jesus did not wish them to be clear what He was talking about.

Second type of teaching is, Jesus gave knowledge through parabolas or example. It is to make the general people understand as their mental capacity. Such as, ‘You are like the light’ or ‘You are like the salt’. Even He said, ‘See the birds or the flowers’. Those were all the messages given through the mental capacity of the listeners.

And the Third type of teaching was after 40 days fasting when He had a trial with Satan. At that time both of them gave all references from Scripture. Such as, when Satan had said to Jesus that, ‘Jump from the top as written in scripture that the Angels will come and carry you’. Jesus replied, ‘It is also written that do not test your father God’. Why both of them use the scripture. As both of them know the kingdom of God and both know the scripture. So they can communicate in a high-ranking way.

From these three types of teaching, I consider the second type of teaching to present the gospel to the unreached. For this, we have to understand our audiences’ mental capacity, faith and understanding. It is very hard because it is not just going and telling them about the blood of Jesus. It will become most of the time valueless as they do not understand what really we wish to make them know. But before this, we have to be studied first their culture, teaching, faith and understanding, then present them the true value of Jesus as they mantle capacity. 

To make it more clear, I will give some examples next time that were very fruitful in my case study.