Baan Tawai update

Last night was a really exciting night at Baan Tawai. We had a couple of friends from church come along to help, Kim and Ajarn Jazz. It's been really awesome every time that Ajarn Jazz has come along. She's an older lady from church who became a christian about 3-4 years ago when she started reading the Bible for herself and lots of the history around the Bible. As the head history professor at Chiang Mai Uni, it's not hugely surprising that she was really interested in church history and the historical evidence around the man Jesus. As she read all these things, she became convinced that Christianity was true, and since then, there's been no turning back. She's been on fire for God and it is just so obvious in her life as she takes every opportunity that she can to tell the gospel and invite anyone she meets (which is LOTS especially as a uni lecturer) to church. So last night was particularly exciting when she had a great opportunity to be sharing the with the Baan Tawai group about how Jesus died in our place.

It all started with us reading a story from the bible - Mark 10:17-31 about the story of the rich young ruler. It wasn't the first time that we've read that passage with the group. But i think it was the first time that some of Jesus' claims, about being God, and that with man it is impossible to inherit eternal life by his own merits but that nothing is impossible for God, started to actually sink in and start challenging one of the guys who's been coming along to the group called Taay. Usually he's quite happy to sit there and attempt to translate, but last night, it was interesting to see the penny's start to drop as he began to understand not just the sentences that he was translating, but the implications of the meaning of the sentences he was reading. He had questions of how it's possible that Jesus could claim to be God. If Jesus died for us, then that means that God died, so how is it possible for God to die? It was just amazing to see Ajarn Jazz drop her head for a second of prayer, before voicing up to start answering his questions.

Please pray for Taay as he starts to understand some huge truths about God. Praise God for the opportunity to partner with Thai christians here who are so on fire for the gospel. Please pray for the rest of the group who come to learn english who might not yet understand all that we have been teaching, for God to open their hearts and eyes to the truth of the gospel