Recent page posted under Sharing the Gospel Index

In our world today, most of us live in a multi-cultural and multi-religion society. Very few, except perhaps those who are living in remote places, still maintain a mono- culture and mono-religion environment. A multi-cultural society can bring out the best and the worst in our people. The best is when there is tolerance and harmonious living despite the differences in viewpoints, values and habits. The worst is when there are prejudices, fear, mistrust , oppression, bullying and use of force.

We who live in Malaysia know what it means to live in a multi-cultural and multi-religion society . For centuries we have tried to live together with our differences in race, religion and values. We come from different ethnic origins ; Malays , Chinese, Indian, Punjabi , Kadazans, Ibans, other minor tribes and the Europeans. We have succeeded so far except for the racial riot of 1969. Yet, we constantly have clashes politically, economically and religiously. But that , I feel is not the main issue. I feel, it is the role played by the people of God which is vital to the nation’s welfare because we hold the key to God’s kingdom. Only when we are able to bring God, the true Creator God, into the heartbeat and life of the nation and its people, that true peace and love can exist in a nation. But cross-cultural communication is not easy due to our many preconceived ideas and reluctance to break our comfort zones. We prefer to stick our the familiar, the orthodox and the permissible. We seldom like to take risk and venture into non-traditional ways

I like to relate an experience on sharing God’s Word to a group of Hindus and some reflections.

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This is the story of John Mark, the man used by the Holy Spirit to record down in writing probably the first Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel according to Mark has been held by many as the first written Gospel from which Matthew and Luke took reference. Who was John Mark and what was his story?

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