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Muslims Want to Convert Me
214 they must go to the college Gym in the lunch hour and ask if we can use the boxing ring for half and hour. This sorted the problem out and we all got back to work. They must have been looking forward in anticipation to this fight out.
Sure enough off they went to the Gym during the break and shortly afterwards I got a telephone call from the women Gym lecturer asking me what was going on. She said they were not really allowed to do it. I seized on this and said good, please tell them that and that will get me off the hook.
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They came back after break feeling let down as they were all looking forward to this boxing match. However there was no Chavda, nor was he there the next day. I was told that he had got wind of the fact that I was a welterweight boxing champion and was looking forward to sorting him out. This again landed me on my feet.
Muslims Want to Convert Me
During my time Luton College of Higher Education I taught classes with a lot of Muslims and other religions.
It was easy to speak to Muslim students about the things of God and they insisted they were right and God could not possibly have a son. From time to time I would visit their homes and meet their parents and they soon respected me.
I had gone through many trials and difficulties and believed I should speak to these Muslims about Jesus and what he came to do.
I could talk to them about the Omnipotent God, the Omnipresence of God and Omniscience of God and they began to think I would soon become a Muslim.
I was invited to there young persons meeting on a Friday evening so I took with me a Muslim missionary who had been looking for an opening to meet the Luton Muslim community. We had a reasonable time just talking and listening.
Word got around that I was interested in the Muslim religion and the student president of the Muslim community came to see me one lunch hour for a meeting.
I fact some of the students nick named me God and had rang in to the local radio station, Chiltern Radio in January 1988 to say they had named me God. See my reply.
There must have been about 10 or so keen Muslim students together with their president and I was speaking to them as best I could about the Lord Jesus.
I suggested I pray for them and with them. They said this has never happened before and that they pray different to Christians. They said they