Faith Under Fire!
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The Ear, Evangelical and Reformed Christian Podcast. Welcome to The Ear, the Evangelical and Reformed, a Christian podcast that urges you to think deeper and draws you closer to God through faith. Through powerful sermons, teaching segments, and discussions, The Ear hopes to give you a different perspective on secular topics from a Christian worldview. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Please welcome your host, Brandon Queen.
Welcome back to the Ear podcast. I'm your host, Brandon Queen. And today I'm bringing them back, y'all, Timothy Harris. But this time we're going to have an episode with a little bit of an investigative twist as we explore powerful stories and hard hitting questions from chapters 39 to 41 in his book, Loving Your Muslim Neighbor. Joining us once again is the author Timothy Harris. And today we'll be digging into three key chapters. Timothy, welcome back, brother.
Brandon, thank you so much, man. I'm excited. To be here with you and to just to dive into these stories. Yeah.
Awesome. All right. Well, let's hit the ground running because we got a lot to cover. All right. So let's start with the shocking title of Chapter 39. They wanted to arrest me for fasting. You know, it really points it paints a picture of religious conflict here, even over something as personal as fasting. Now, Timothy, you recently recounted on an incredible story here. But let's approach this from an investigative angle. So why do you think Muslim international students who come to our country expect Christians to talk to them about faith matters?
Well, let me, if I could tell the story that gave the title to this chapter 39. They wanted to, and he said, arrested me for fasting. It was just funny. You as a law enforcement person. So basically this was in June of 2014. Miriam and I were in Knoxville, Tennessee with some friends and we ate dinner. And then some of the friends said that they wanted some frozen yogurt. They saw a place that they had seen before around the corner. So we started walking there, and on the way there, I saw two young men walking. And I could just tell by then, we'd been in Muslim ministry for a while, and I could tell that they were Arabs. And I could tell kind of by their appearances that they were most likely from Saudi Arabia or from Yemen. And so...
Miriam and the others went on into the yogurt place. I just said to her, I just want to kind of see if I can get these guys' attention and talk to them. So she went in with the others to the yogurt place, and I just shouted out to these two young men, salam aleikum, or as-salam aleikum, which in Arabic is peace be upon you, something they always say to one another. And so these two young men turned around as it happened to be. They were from Saudi Arabia. And they were kind of shocked. They saw this, you know, white guy with kind of white hair. And they're like, you know, who is this dude? And why is he, you know, I mean, is he a Muslim? What is he? Who is he? and so i just said hi and and invited them to join us um you know for yogurt and so they came in and it was just so cool brandon because miriam and i had i don't know maybe it was 45 minutes or an hour of conversation with them probably 40 minutes and it was pleasant conversation but but also it involved some talking about faith ours and theirs and so at one point though
when I was asking them more about their lives here, one of them said that he had an experience in Texas the previous year. He was new to the U.S., and he said in his broken English, this was exactly the quote, they wanted to arrest me for fasting. And so I was just like, my brain was just going, okay, now what in the world is he saying? Like, Okay, I don't, I've been to Texas, but like, so I just said to him incredulously, what? I said, was it during Ramadan, which is the traditional time when Muslims don't eat, you know, during the day for 30 days, they're fasting as part of their religious faith and rituals. And so, but Miriam was so far ahead of me in understanding what this guy was trying to say. And so finally I got it.
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