Yesus Kristus!

Jakarta, Indonesia!

"A Muslim Finds Yesus Kristus. "

Jakarta, Indonesia!

Mr. T.A. Herndan.

Jakarta, Indonesia!

The Driyarkara School of Philosophy.


A snippet or two from This Rock magazine, September / October - 2010.


"I was born in Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia, on April 13, 1978.

"I have two older brothers and one younger brother.

"I spent the first 18 years of my life in my hometown, and then went to Bandung to continue my study.

"I grew up in a nominally Muslim family.

"My journey to Christian faith was a long, and not always conscious process, which, as far as I can remember started when I was about six or seven..."

When he was 15, he watched a TV music show that had some lyrics about Jesus in a tune that ran: "You were willing to be crucified for us."

As he tells us:

"This came to me as a surprise, since it was not in my understanding that there was a sense of willingness in the story of the Crucifixion.

"The popular Islamic version of the story that I was familiar with was that Jesus ran away when people were trying to crucify him, and when he got stuck and couldn't go anywhere further, God lifted him up to heaven, and the people crucified someone else whom they mistook for, and whom God had made to resemble, Jesus.

"After the TV show was over, I kept wondering why Jesus, whose birth in Bethlehem was now being celebrated, was willing to be crucified, and what benefit there could be in doing so, and what it had to do with us now..."

A few years more go on by, then:

"I was received into the Catholic Church in December 2006, a couple of days before Christmas, at a parish South Jakarta..."