Tea in the Mountains

Got to visit a couple the other day in the foothills of the Himalayas who have been missionaries in India for a long, long time. They are an extraordinary couple who pray and pray and pray for others passionately and often.

They have a patio that overlooks a scenic ravine -- God's Cathedral, as the husband puts it. Such is the impact that this couple has made for Christ in their hometown, that he said he could be paraded naked through town to mock him as a follower of Jesus, and he is confident that a host of local believers would follow him in the humiliation as a show of support. He was being facetious, but it's probably true.

Over tea, they told us of God's saving power in people's lives -- the kind of power that releases people from fear of and possession by demons. They've seen it. It is a very, very real part of life in India. 

To have their faith, their testimony, their prayer life. That is the life we all should want as followers of Jesus.