Tuha was a respected Imam in his community who was known for defending his faith with clarity and conviction. When his friend Yash began following Jesus, Tuha saw it as a serious error that needed to be corrected.
So he began visiting Yash’s home regularly to question him about the credibility of the Bible and to challenge what he believed were dangerous ideas. Tuha warned others not to listen. He tried to pressure Yash into reconsidering. From the outside, it looked like opposition, and in many ways, it was.
And yet, Tuha kept returning. Not because he agreed, but because something about Yash unsettled him. There was no hostility in his responses. No attempt to win an argument. Only a steady patience and a kindness that didn’t weaken under pressure.
Eventually, Yash invited Tuha to sit in on a Discovery Bible Study gathering.
It wasn’t a formal event or a structured lesson, but a small group of people who simply opened the Bible together, read a passage aloud, and asked straightforward questions about what it meant and how they might obey it.
No one debated. No one tried to force agreement. They read. They listened. They responded.
Tuha didn’t participate much. He observed and watched how Scripture shaped the conversation and how obedience, not argument, seemed to be the goal. For a time, nothing outward appeared to change.
Then one day, he found himself in a moment that arguments couldn’t address.
A child in the community had died. In the confusion and grief that followed, Tuha was there. He held the child in his arms. Whatever confidence he had carried into theological debates felt distant in that moment. Authority and training offered no answers to what lay before him.
In desperation, he prayed a simple prayer: “Isa, if you are truly from God, show your power here.”
The child came back to life.
For Tuha, that moment divided his life into before and after. The One he had argued against could no longer be dismissed as a topic for debate. What he had witnessed demanded a response.
He didn’t begin with public declarations or dramatic gestures. He began with Scripture. The same kind of gathering he had once observed in Yash’s home began taking shape under his own leadership. The Bible was opened. People read aloud. They asked what it meant. They discussed how they would live it out.
One Discovery Bible Study formed.
Then others began to form through those who had learned and obeyed.
Today, what began with resistance has multiplied to the seventh generation of groups in three different communities. A man who once sought to stop the message now helps carry it forward, not through argument, but through Scripture opened simply and shared faithfully.
This is a story about what happens when humility meets hostility, and when God chooses to reveal His power in ways no one can manufacture.
Across places where skepticism runs deep and opposition feels strong, the Gospel continues to move. Sometimes it begins in the heart of someone who came to confront it. And sometimes, by God’s grace, that confrontation becomes the starting point of replication.
