If Elder PA Thomas was my Turning point, a catalyst then perhaps Er. Sabin Panta would have been my promoter. I knew the field of Apologetics soon after my landing on +2 level education as a science student. Truly, being a Christian and a science student was not a small deal and it was a heart shaking phase for me. But the CBS I joined because of encouragement from my church and family, I got to know a person, a great Man of God PA Thomas who introduced the field of Apologetics. Never I saw such a Man who understood Christian faith such deeply and was able to defend it so perfectly. From that phase, I confirmed my calling in this field and decided to dive deeply into the sea of this field. In that period of my intellectual struggle, nobody at church knew about this field.
As soon as I began to enroll in it, I came across an Indian channel who made fantastic videos on behalf of defending faith and by day-to-day interaction I end up meeting a new Indian friend Abhisek Vical who again introduced me to a new Nepali friend after seeing my passion in Apologetics. That Nepali friend was none other than Sabin Panta. With almost similar intellectual struggle background, interest, critical thinking, theological open mind and even same career field, we soon became good friends. I would admit today that it was none other than God's plan or no matter what I would boldly call it "PREDESTINATION", GOD DID IT, NOT ME, NOT MY OWN WILL! My friend, my inspiration, my brother or whatever I call him, he came up as another turning point in my life adding up pillars and beams to my growth! We met and discussed a lot about theological and apologetics subjects. He was indeed a person who loved studying books! He had up-to-date knowledge of theology. I could share him my struggles. He was the one who laid my way to many vast circles of new friends. I was quite introvert but I made successfully made connections with many friends across churches of various denominations. I could make good relations with all of them. It was such a blessing! We both even got an opportunity to meet Kamal Adhikari, a reputed apologist of Nepal who later made a team and bring many of us together in field of Apologetics. It was such a blessing! We also worked together in several book, podcast and church session projects.
Obviously, there was also the time when we had conflicts and that's normal part of friendship but he taught me that conflict wasn't problem but the main concern is how we deal and resolve it. As time went on, I had to face lots of problems in my life due to stress of career. I began to detach myself from him and everyone. However that was the most sad part in my journey. But I could just say that. my friend Sabin was indeed a man of good heart. He never gave up upon me. He is a genuine discipler, I would say. While I can see many youths at churches would fail at this, he didn't give up. He was a genuine learner as well as a discipler. He had a big deal of concern with future of Nepali churches in field of Apologetics. He helped me to sharpen my caliber in blog writing that I almost started after my SLC life.
I must say, I am writing this blog as a Tribute to him. He has physically gone far away and I regret I couldn't even meet him. Lots of time, he wanted to meet me :(. Because I was in a great hurricane and tornado of my own problems and guess what? I made that so big unusually, I couldn't make time for him. I end up today feeling bad about myself and missing him badly. It was like a movie 'No Retreat, No surrender' where Bruce Lee's soul comes to train Jason and after the mission gets over, he leaves. He came in my life, became intellectual Bruce Lee for me, inspired me a lot and now he is no longer accessible to me. I have no enough words to share, but if I would share, my language would be exactly like the one John wrote in his Gospel at ending. Sabin did so many contributions, but if I were to write all of them, perhaps I would need hundreds of episodes to run in my blog. Truly a great thanks to my GOD and my Lord for bringing him into my life...
Finally, I couldn't think of writing more. I wished, but I couldn't. I am writing this down with lots of pain bearing in my soul, missing him so much. I am just thinking how Paul could have written all those epistles to churches and to certain individuals to guide them! He was also in great pain and some epistles, he wrote even from jail! I feel as if his spirit came upon me and I am writing this to all youths who are growing in this post-modern world, You need a catalyst and promoter in your faith journey! Don't think you are perfect and you can do that all by yourself! That's not how Christian ministry works! Get good mentors, good friend circles who can help you out to continue your journey, your race! The time is coming now where people would hate truth otherwise mix it with other stuffs to make it sound something pleasing to their ears! Study the Bible! Don't just read it! Correct your circles if they catch something wrong about faith! Rebuke, inspire and strengthen one another in faith! Be true warriors!
Thank you my friend, Sabin...
All the best for your future career...
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