Imagine you’re North African August 17th, 2005
even more - imagine you’re Muslim
Imagine you are given a packet from strangers on the port as you travel back from Europe to North Africa for the summer, including some cassette tapes. You and your family ignore the material knowing it’s Christian, and set it down along with the other “stuff” that accumulates while traveling. Some time later, your Mom is cleaning up and asks about the materials, wanting to know if she can throw them away. You tell her you don’t want the information, but to save the cassette tapes because they are a valuable resource - you’ll record over them.
Imagine you put the tapes in your stereo and hit record wanting to dub a tape or record off the radio. When you rewind to hear what you recorded, you don’t recognize the content. As you listen, you realize the cassette didn’t record your material and you are hearing the original content.
You sit back and continue to listen, drawn in by what you were hearing. You have a strange feeling coming over you as you listen. Little do you know, God has long been at work arranging this very moment to share his story of love and grace with you.
This is a true story about one of the students now enrolled in our Bible Correspondence Course (BCC) program. After listening to the tapes, he contacted us to ask for more literature.
What an incredible thing to hear God working through a malfunctioning record button on a North African stereo. It’s just another reminder, we are only hand and feet, and God is doing the real work.