Witnessing In Egypt

I have a friend who's in Egypt for a few weeks. We've been talking about evangelism and Middle Eastern culture. Here's a recent email he sent me. It gives a great perspective on the Middle Eastern people.

I think another problem is that people here see Christianity synonymous with America and George Bush, and they don't really like America and the hate George Bush. One Egyptian in my hotel was absolutely stunned when I told him that Jesus was a Palestinian, his jaw dropped, I said, yeah, didn't you know, He was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, 2000 years ago. He kind of looked down and nodded in agreement. I like shocking them with different things like that. I was asked if I pray at church and I said that yes I do but I'm always in prayer, that turned into an interesting conversation. Or when I tell them that God speaks to my heart, the same way He did to Abraham, or that I love God and I cannot wait to be with Him. To them God is to be feared, so things like that always intrigue them. Yesterday they opened a bottle of wine, even though they're not supposed to drink, when they asked me if I wanted some they were very suprised to hear a no, they asked me if it was haram (forbidden), I told them that nothing is forbidden for me but that I choose not to, for the most part, they get quite intrigued.

You can check out his blog at www.pedrocarrion.com.