Autobiographical

…………when my father passed away my mother joined us as a missionary in India. Our sails were up and we had begun our life of faith that was to take us eventually to the burning ghats of Varanasi, the foothills of the Himalayas and the dusty bush of central Africa.” ……

……….“I thought to myself, would I go out like that, just trusting God to go and preach the gospel, or do I want to first see everything planned out and secure before I make a move? The next morning I was busy with my Oswald Chambers devotional again, and I happened to just open it at a random place and this is what I read:

“May 30th
Jesus Christ demands of the man who trusts Him the same reckless sporting spirit that the natural man exhibits”

God spoke to me about myself and the debility of our present Christian culture where we hardly see at all the kind of courage and enterprise that is so evident in the world among those who care nothing for Christ or his commands. Hundreds of Doctors with Medicin sans Frontiers risk their lives on edges of civilization without the least hope of an eternal reward, men walk across the Antarctic for nothing else but earthly glory, and we Christians huddle in our churches while most of humanity slides into the Abyss because we are scared of trusting in the promises of God! In the flush of this realization I told God that we would get to India to preach the Gospel even if we had to walk there!

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