Twice a week we go to ‘The Rock’ (YWAM’s free coffee bar) to teach English and get to know the local students of the area. This has been so much fun, the Taiwanese are very friendly and kind. One thing (out of many) that has been a shock to us is the amount of questions we get about our faith in Jesus. Back in Canada religion is a taboo subject most of the time, but here people are very open and want to talk about it. They have many great questions like, "How is it fair that God forgives anyone no matter what they have done if they ask and believe that Jesus is the Son of God?" Another guy asked me once about a part of 1 Thessalonians where it says that when Jesus comes back it will be as a thief in the night. He couldn’t understand the fact that it was a figure of speech to imply it will be a surprise at an unknown time. He just thought, "Jesus is good and a thief is bad, so how can this be?" It really emphasized for Ben and I the importance of helping people understand even simple figures of speech in the bible.
In other news, we are super excited because we will be going to the Philippines in a few weeks to teach the pastors of a church and the students in the church’s bible school for a week. It is quite last minute but we prayed and felt it was the right thing to do, so we have two weeks to prepare what we will be teaching, arrange flights etc. If you think about it please pray for us!
Teaching Adventures 