God is a Turtle

[Rae]

When I went to a Campus Crusade for Christ event in Florida, we all watched a missions video. The video had a man on there who had gone on a trip to Russia. Initially he relied on his translator to get the Christian message out, but one day he felt he'd learned enough Russian to get by and went out witnessing by himself.

He met a man who seemed receptive and so he talked with him. He did well until he told the man that God was holy. The man looked at him strangely and asked him several times to confirm his statement that God was holy. The witness did so, and then tried to move on to other things.

When the witness got home that night, the first thing he did was ask the translator what had happened. The translator laughed and told him that he had said to the man not, "God is holy," but "God is a turtle."

 

[* kittie *]

yeah, i've seen pretty weird translating jobs before. hehe

 

[aaron]

That's pretty funny. Poor guy, he must of been very confused.

 

[carmen]

Well with witnessing like that you are not going to forget what
it was about. It certainly would of raise the question with the
bloke on who was God. lol Just as well it wasn't me I would get
the giggles every time I thought of it.

 

[coastie]

LOL... poor guy, I hope the missionary went and cleared that up afterwards.

 

[Lbiagm]

that is funny but yet bad.

 

[Rae]

Oh, I think with that kind of result and confusion, the witness probably scheduled a follow-up...though I like the idea of some poor Russian guy out there thinking, "Okay, so Jesus was a turtle"... Appeals to my funnybone.

 

[coolhandluke]

That's hilarious. I like turtles...they're way cute.

-katie

 

[aaron]

Just think: He goes home and his supporters ask how it went. And he replies, "well the good thing is I converted hundreds and the really bad part is I started a new religion."