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Tips for the Simulcast: An Updated Schedule

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 02:42 PM PDT

With Secret Church only a few days away, here is an updated schedule for the night. (NOTE: All times are listed in CDT and may be adjusted during Secret Church.)

5:00pm     Pre-Roll Begins
6:00pm     Announcements
                 This is the time for you to make any announcements specific to your
                 location.
6:05pm     Welcome from David Platt
6:08pm     Musical Worship led by the Worship Team from Brook Hills
6:22pm     Teaching Segment 1
7:22pm     Break
7:37pm     Teaching Segment 2
8:40pm     Area Highlight Video: Chinese Muslims
                 Interview/Panel Discussion
                 Prayer Time for the Hui
9:22pm     Break
9:37pm     Teaching Segment 3
10:40pm   Giving Report
                 Offering & Song
                 You will have approximately 60 seconds to give instructions before taking
                 up the offering.
10:50pm   Break
11:05pm    Teaching Segment 4
12:08am    Musical Worship
12:12am    Close in Prayer

For additional details about the schedule for the evening, click here. For more important information about hosting Secret Church, click here.

Misunderstandings

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PDT

Throughout the month of March, we will be posting daily about Chinese Muslims, the prayer focus for our upcoming Secret Church gathering. We invite you to learn about Chinese Muslims and pray with us for God's glory to be made known among them. If you would like to read other posts in this blog series, you can find them here.

Photo Courtesy of Eric Chapman Photography

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.’ ” (Mark 12:29, ESV)

As she read Mark 12:29, A-xi-ya exclaimed, "Then we really are the same as you Christians! I was taught that you believed in three gods: God the father, God the mother (Mary) and God the son (Jesus), but if you believe what your Bible says here then you are the same as us Hui! This is true. God is one. But there are other parts of your Bible that have been corrupted."

The Hui have several misunderstandings about the Christian faith. The vast majority of Hui people have never met a Christian, let alone heard the message of salvation. So they continue to believe what they have been taught at the Mosque or from their parents; namely that Christians worship crosses and statues, believe in three gods, that the Bible has been corrupted, that the Koran supersedes the Bible, etc. Although they recognize Jesus as a prophet and the Bible as a holy book, they esteem Mohammed and the Koran as superior to Jesus and the Bible. This discourages the devout Hui (who may be the more spiritually responsive) from reading the Bible and getting to know Christians. They, like the Pharisees of Jesus time, consider it blasphemy when Christians claim that Jesus is God. This is probably the greatest triumph of the devil in their lives and we must ask God to overcome this barrier.

PLEASE PRAY

Ask God to increase the proclamation of His truth to the Hui, through the Jesus film, tracts, and the spoken words of workers.
Ask God to remove the barrier of the denial of His divinity.
Invite the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth of the Trinity to the Hui as they hear the Gospel message.

This post was re-posted from Pray4Hui.com. For more information about and prayer requests for Chinese Muslims, please visit Pray for the Hui and follow @pray4hui on Twitter.

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