By BANJI OJEWALE
The 1978 e book, I dared to name Him Father, by Bilquis Sheikh, sacked the staid and sacral stance of the slumbering world with its contribution to the generational interplay between Muslims and Christians. Bilquis was an aristocratic Pakistani Muslim whose conversion to Christianity plunged her right into a whirlwind of rise up, rejection and mock by the hands of household and society. Her e book, with Richard Schneider, is the granular account of her epic battle in opposition to those that challenged her daring strikes in a conservative group.
Her faith doesn’t admit God as a private father. She writes: ‘’No Muslim, I felt sure, ever considered Allah as his father… Wouldn’t it’s sinful to attempt to deliver the Nice One all the way down to our personal stage?’’ Now, Bilquis didn’t solely name God her Father; but in addition, she went forward to observe her deep-seated convictions to change into a follower of Christ, sacrificing comfort and conference. She spoke of threats from kinsmen to go to her with honour killing.
I dared to name Him Father had preliminary worldwide gross sales working into tons of of 1000’s of copies, and easing into historical past as ‘’some of the in style Muslim-Christianity conversion books of the twentieth Century.’’ It has been translated into a number of world languages together with Chinese language, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Arabic and Persian.
Subsequently when Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, Normal Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM, took his World Campaign with Kumuyi, GCK, to Pakistan between late October and early November 2025, many observers spoke of a deja vu expertise. The worldwide evangelist, not a novice to the world of valorous adventures for the Gospel of Christ, was treading the place a girl trod a long time earlier and got here out with ‘’an enthralling story of religion and braveness within the face of hazard and issue.’’
Mankind has moved on since. We now not permit fruitless religiosity to destroy our shared humanity. The plea of China’s Mao Zedong to all women and men to ‘’let 100 flowers bloom, let 100 colleges of thought contend’’ has been accepted by all. So, Pastor Kumuyi was warmly acquired within the Muslim land of Pakistan, he additionally returned with triumphant narratives.
Within the Islamic-majority nation for the primary time, the revered African cleric preached Christ because the Saviour and solely Resolution to the protracted existential disaster man is fighting. He was in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest metropolis boasting a inhabitants of 14.8 million. GCK teamed up with the home-grown Everlasting Life Church and Isaac Tv, for the three-day programme that exposed how this nice land of Asia has remodeled from a closet into an open society with open arms ready for brand new helpful teachings and civilization paradigms.
Tens of 1000’s of Pakistanis thronged the assembly grounds to look at Kumuyi pray, to obtain salvation, to be healed and to obtain deliverance from ignorance. Within the clergyman’s personal phrases after the journey: ‘’What a divinely ordained-time we had in Pakistan! The Campaign, Ministers’ Convention, and Sunday Worship Service have been powerfully saturated with salvation, new commitments to Christ, profound healings, and mighty deliverance for numerous treasured souls. By God’s Grace, throughout the occasions, we saw-Whole Attendance: Over 58,000 contributors. Whole New Converts: Over 33,000 souls committing to Christ! We rejoice for each single soul.’’
Some of the stirring gatherings in Pakistan was recorded on Day Two of the GCK. Throughout his sermon with the subject, “The long-awaited freedom for the person”, the Nigerian preacher stated God desires man to comprehend that he’s crucial to His plan to reclaim man from the mire of sin and despondency. He stated: ‘’The world is just not upright, as a result of man is just not upright. If God fixes man right into a state of righteousness and uprightness, his surroundings and deeds may even be righteous and upright…Make man upright, and launch him into the world upright…No uprightness for man, no uprightness for the world!’’
Kumuyi referred the viewers to the e book of Romans 7:24: On his personal man is wretched; incapable of self-redemption, he’s heedlessly heading for a shipwreck. He stated God intervened by sending Christ to comprise the cruise to calamity. Christ’s mission is to save lots of man, who would in flip be used to ship common man. Pastor declared: ’’If God doesn’t save man, man can’t save the world.’’ The famend evangelist of holiness gave an illustration of man’s criticality in fulfilling the plan of God. A person of God, he stated, was getting ready a Sunday message. However his younger son wasn’t permitting him full focus. So to maintain him away the busy pastor tore a paper with the map of the world into items, and requested the lad to go and repair them again, anticipating the duty to take the boy’s consideration from him. However the boy was again in a couple of minutes, to his dad’s shock.“
How did you do it?’’ He requested. The son stated: ‘’Once you took the paper to tear it, I noticed the image of the person on the again of the web page. I don’t know the world; however I do know the person. So I mounted the person on the again, and acquired the world mounted additionally.’’ The Normal Superintendent of DCLM stated God can also be piecing damaged man collectively via religion in Christ so as to mend the cracked world. He informed the Pakistanis that his GCK was going everywhere in the world to current this excellent news of the Divine goal to spiritually rejuvenate women and men for service to God and put together them for Heaven. Kumuyi’s devotional, *Day by day Manna*, has additionally change into a silent evangelist in houses, colleges, workplaces, Police cells, prisons, hospitals and motels amongst different locations worldwide, delivering this message of Christ to the misplaced.
Pastor Anwar Fazal who hosted Kumuyi expressed a passionate need: Pakistan is anticipating the Nigerian churchman to go to once more subsequent yr. He stated Pakistani Christians can be praying God to let Kumuyi deliver a billion souls to the Kingdom of Christ. Yet another signal of such heat was the reception Kumuyi receivedwhen he and his staff visited Pakistan’s Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs, Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora, a non-Christian, whose work is to construct interfaith bridges and concord.
It isn’t a tall order; neither is it an unreasonable anticipation. Already, GCK reaches greater than 180 international locations, with tens of millions in attendance on-line and bodily and tons of of 1000’s decisioning for Christ. All God requires from man is to offer Him a listening ear in an area devoid of violence, coercion, non secular bigotry and intolerance, as He sends His servants to us with phrases of hope and peace.
•Ojewale, wrote from Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.
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