Shapoor
"The Cross in the Fire: My Unexpected Journey in Finding a New Identity in Christ"Shapoor Ahmadi was a devout Muslim and a civil engineer who prayed five times a day. In 2007 he was forced to flee Iran for political reasons and arrived in the United Kingdom as an asylum seeker. Far from home and stripped of the life he had known, he lost his sense of identity. Isolation gave way to depression, drinking and smoking.
It was in this darkness that a group of Christians invited him to church. Through reading the Bible and experiencing genuine Christian love, Shapoor began to question the faith he had always held. A pivotal moment came at a Christmas party, when he felt the presence of the Holy Spirit and wept.
For months he read both the Bible and the Quran side by side, searching for the truth. Then came a dream — a cross standing in fire, with a light pushing him toward it. That dream led him to surrender his life to Christ and to discover a new identity in Him.
Today Shapoor shares the gospel with Muslims across the UK. Fluent in Farsi and conversant in Turkish and Arabic, he has already led two entire families to faith in Jesus. He believes Iran is experiencing rapid church growth — both because Islam has failed to improve people's lives since the 1979 Revolution, and because refugees in Europe are now free to hear the gospel for the first time. He sees sharing Christ with both moderate and radical Muslims as essential, convinced that "light has power over darkness."
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