Dinesh Natorajan is one of our new interns at St Mary’s Cathedral. This is his testimony of how he lived his life unaware of the Gospel until a colleague at work dared to share the Gospel with him. Only then did he have the opportunity to find salvation in Christ.

I come from a family with a strong Hindu background, especially from my mother’s side of the family. My maternal grandparents and relatives had a small shrine where they would offer worship to the idol they prayed to. I would watch as some of my relatives got into trances, made prophecies or prescribed “cures” for sicknesses or evil that had befallen the family. Often the prophecies were wrong and the “cure” didn’t really work. That led me to be sceptical of all things religious.

By the time I was in high school, I had read a little of the Bible and I had many questions to ask about Christianity. But none of my many Christian friends at school had the answers nor did they care to share the Gospel with me. When I entered university, I wasn’t too keen on talking to Christians to find out more, since no Christians could give me any meaningful answers as they themselves didn’t know things such as “where in the Bible did Jesus claim to be God?” or “why do we need Jesus to die for the forgiveness of sins?”. In the 8 years I spent in University, I met countless Christians but not one person shared the Gospel with me and I remained dead in my sins.

It was only when I entered the workplace that I finally met two Christians who professed their faith clearly, reached out with kindness and fellowship and talked about the Gospel. My colleague, Bih Hua, invited me to church and I finally heard the Bible expounded clearly by our preachers from St Mary’s. I was able to ask and receive answers that shocked me to the core. I found out that everyone has sinned and is dead in their sins but I also heard the Good News that Jesus Christ paid for our sins by His death on the cross. In accepting Him as my Lord, He brings me spiritual life, cleanses me of all sins and makes me His own.

Remember to proclaim the Gospel everywhere and not just with your behaviour but also with intentional sharing of the Gospel. Bih Hua did so and she brought a lost sheep back to its Master. How many more out there are hungering for the Good News that we are keeping away from them?