Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Greetings once again in the name of our glorious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! I hope your month of September went as well as mine! Most of it was spent on the deputation trail, traveling all over this great land of ours. I had meetings in Maryland, Pennsylvannia, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, West Virginia and Virgina. I drove several thousands of miles, but it was worth it as two more churches took me on for support and 3 families as well!
As well as gaining more support in the month of September, I also had several opportunities to witness in many places. In downtown New York, I passed out tracts for several hours in front of the old Ed Sullivan theater. I also passed out tracts on the subways as well as in the streets. The people there were very cold, but many did receive tracts.
Probably the greatest witness this month was my car. It has Bible verses all over it, and people can’t help but notice them. In Maryland for instance, I had a black man come up to me and tell me he liked my bumper stickers. He said he was a Church of God in Christ preacher, and he began to tell me what he preached in a revival the night before. He said, “You gotta get saved, and you’ve gotta live it, or you’ll lose it!” I said, “I disagree!” Then I began to show him out of the Bible about the doctrine of Eternal Security. For almost 45 minutes he listened as we looked at many different Bible verses. Afterwards, he looked me in the face and said, “Hmmm mmmm, I do believe we need to pray! I’ve been teaching false doctrine, and I do want the Lord to forgive me!” We had a word of prayer there and he asked God to forgive him for teaching something that was not so, and he asked God to give him another chance to preach the word! Then after we had prayed, he asked me how I would lead someone to the Lord. So, I took another 20 minutes and showed him from the Bible. He said that he understood and that he was going to preach that because that’s what the Bible said, and not what some man or denomination said! Glory to God!
Also in September, I stopped at a gas station in Rhode Island, and met a young man who worked there that said he liked my front license plate. It said Jesus in big red letters. I said, “Oh, thanks! Are you a Christian?” To the which he replied, “No, I’m a muslim!” I had to stop for a minute and scratch my head. Then I asked him why he’d think it was good if he was a Muslim. He said because Muslims believe the prophets and Jesus was a prophet just like Mohammed. Well, to make a long story short, I witnessed to him for about 30 minutes and got nowhere. But, he did invite me to his Muslim Mosque to talk to the head man in charge. I went with a pastor friend of mine and we talked to them for close to an hour. They do not believe that Jesus died for anyone’s sins. They think Allah took Jesus to heaven before he died. (This way they do away with the Blood Atonement.) Plus, they don’t believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh! (Thus, they do away with the diety of Christ as well). We tried our best to learn what they believe, and at the same time tell them what the Bible said. And, everytime we told them what we believed, they said that that was “unfortunate.” When we left, we gave them tracts to read. Please pray that they’d get saved. The man’s name who took us there was Josef Kattan. He was a Syrian Muslim.
So, that’s about it for the month of September. It came and went so very fast. Thanks again for your prayers and support! And, may God continue to bless all of you.
Because He arose,
Robert Ray Breaker III
Missionary to Honduras
Some things the Muslims said to me while I was in their Mosque:
What they said that they believed:
They do believe that Jesus was a prophet.
They do believe that Jesus is coming back.
They do believe that Allah is the only God, and beside him there is no other God.
They do believe that Mohammed was the last prophet.
They do believe that all religions worship the same God (whom they call Allah)
They believe that there are minor sins and major sins.
They believe that if the minor sins can be forgiven by prayer and washing by water.
They believe the major sins can be forgiven by repenting and prayer and washing by water.
They believe in Anti semitism.
They are anti Jewish and this guy called the Jews the antichrist.
They believe there is an antichrist coming... and the Jews will follow him.
They believe that Jesus is coming again, and will be the leader of the Muslims.
What they said that they didn’t believe:
They don’t believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh
They don’t believe that Jesus Christ died on a cross. They only believe that he was taken to heaven before he died.
They don’t believe salvation is by faith
They believe salvation is by works (praying 5 times a day, washing with water, etc.)
They don’t believe in the trinity.
They don’t believe the New Testament, but do believe parts of the old.
