Slowly, my friend, and thanks for the kind compliment! Wisdom is the first thing on my list to pray for, day after day. I'm on my fourth trip through the Turkish New Testament, and blogging the adventure at this site. I can read the NT fairly comfortably now, but a Turkish technical manual is still out of reach. Motivating my girls to study Turkish with me is a real challenge, even though they cherish our family's Turkish friends!
I'd appreciate your prayers for my dissertation -- the underlying goal is to build a bridge to the Christian faith for Turkish Muslims.
SHALOM upon your house, as you seek to serve our King!
So it has become wisdom for you to seek the thing that God has desired You to do... that is a blessed thing...
For others, studying the Turkish languages may not be the thing God would have them do...seeking the thing God would have each of us do, is the practise of wisdom.
You make a point, about being stuck in eschatology in such a way as to not focus on the tasks at hand such as winning people to Christ. But I wouldn’t dismiss eschatology out of hand. Biblical prophecies were put there to spur us to action, that the times are growing short but that also(in support of your points) the end would not come until all the nations have had the gospel preached to them....
Ezekiel 37-39 is coming...all of the prophecies will happen. However, as I read about how Christ came upon the scene and how who he was not what was traditionally expected of the Messiah, I have to wonder if the unfolding of Biblical prophecy will also happen in ways that the “traditionalists” were not expecting...(God’s ways are not man’s ways)
just saying...
Very admirable that you are learning Turkish to preach to the Turk.
Of course you need to be very very careful...but do you ever get into discussions with them about the genocide of Christians in Turkey?