{"id":63635,"date":"2017-09-20T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63635"},"modified":"2017-09-20T06:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:08:51","slug":"ct-ravi-zacharias-remembers-his-young-protege-nabeel-qureshi-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63635","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Ravi Zacharias Remembers His Young Prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Nabeel Qureshi, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw Nabeel Qureshi, he sat at a table across from me, his one leg constantly moving almost subconsciously, warming up for a run. It was a habit of his restless disposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">That was Nabeel in true expression; he hated sitting still. He was a man with a mission, ready to run. Sadly, for us, he\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/september\/died-nabeel-qureshi-author-seeking-allah-finding-jesus-rzim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finished his race all too soon<\/a>\u00a0and our hearts are broken at the loss of one who ran with spectacular passion to do what filled his soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">He was a thorough-going evangelical. He held dear the gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Old and New Testaments and carried the message of salvation. Jesus\u2019 grace for a transformed heart was his message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">For years as a young man, he labored and struggled to gain \u201crighteousness before God\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/january-february\/christ-called-me-off-minaret.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only to find out<\/a>\u00a0that righteousness was already met in the cross through Jesus Christ. That was his message in his best-selling book,\u00a0<em>Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Qureshi was not just an evangelical; he was passionately evangelistic&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2017\/september-web-only\/ravi-zacharias-nabeel-qureshi-apologist-rzim.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Qureshi was not just an evangelical; he was passionately evangelistic&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nReflecting on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAQureshi\">@NAQureshi<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\">@CTmagazine<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yAhP0ZzDNn\">https:\/\/t.co\/yAhP0ZzDNn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ravi Zacharias (@RaviZacharias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaviZacharias\/status\/910333480650838016\">September 20, 2017<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw Nabeel Qureshi, he sat at a table across from me, his one leg constantly moving almost subconsciously, warming up for a run. It was a habit of his restless disposition. That was Nabeel in true<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63635\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,174,162,438,440,426,108,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-apologetics","category-christology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-islam","category-religion-culture","category-theology-evangelism-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63638,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63635\/revisions\/63638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}