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Home » Field Reports » Love, Shame & Drunken Fury: The Story of a Gospel for Asia Pastor

Love, Shame & Drunken Fury: The Story of a Gospel for Asia Pastor

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September 15, 2020
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Discussing the lives of a Gospel for Asia supported pastor like Nateshwar, the opposition, their love for Christ and those that Christ loves.
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WILLS POINT, TX – WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing the life of a Gospel for Asia pastor Nateshwar, the opposition, shame and fury he, and others like him, constantly face for the sake of his love for Christ and those that Christ loves.

Gospel for Asia (GFA) pastor Nateshwar knew what it meant to endure opposition for the sake of Christ. He remembered the hostility he faced when he first told his parents he wanted to be a Christian. He knew how his people despised those who “forsook their ancestral gods” to worship what they considered “the God of the lower class.” He had faced that hatred before, time and time again; it was years of slander, rejection and abuse from his people.

He saw the same disgust in the eyes of the four drunken men who now stood before him. He faced the hot press of their rage as one of the men raised his arm and rained blows on his body with a stick. It broke under the force of their fury.

The crowd around them struggled to stop the beating. The pastor’s voice rose above the fray, echoing the heart of Christians and martyrs through the generations: “Though you beat me, still then I love you,” he cried out…

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