Had a conversation with an Indian taxi driver.
It started off with a chat about the weather being hazy and that there is a fire happening at our neigbouring country. From this, it linked to talking about chinese taoism rituals of burning joss-sticks and paper offerings. He then shared that he read somewhere that there are people that made suggestions to the government to have e-burning instead. Meaning, have a website, and have the offerings burnt inside. Interesting idea.
On the topic of rituals, the converstion segue to christians’ act of holy communion being a ritual too. He then further shared about his wife being a chinese and recent christian convert. He claimed that she is a pious christian, methodist, which he can not comprehend.
As by now the trip is ending, I could only share with him a simple food for thought: Pawson in his book, “Men of God” shared about the tendancy of women turning to Jesus more readily and more often as compared to men turning to Jesus. This is a general obsersation that could be seen across many churches. And Pawson suggested that the phenomenon could be due to men not rising up as they should, and due to that, Jesus is then even more clearly seen as what a man should be like – someone who could provide assurance, confidence, attention, love. So as a reflection, which I hope he does spend some time to think about, why then is his wife such a pious believer? I hope through this “poking”, it will trigger his curiousity to look truly into who this Jesus is, and who he himself is, and through that, come to receive Jesus as his own personal Lord and Savior.
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