Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc., 1996
Genre: Fiction, Theological/ Historical
Page Count: 207
Genre: Fiction, Theological/ Historical
Page Count: 207
Overview: Becoming a missionary, like other life-altering decisions is not something that someone should enter into lightly. Even after all of the praying and studying and reading his Bible that Jim did almost around the clock during his college years, when it came time that he might have the chance to become a missionary, he prayed some more. He wanted the Lord’s leading on whether he should go to Ecuador. He finally felt the Lord leading him in that direction. Each time the Lord opened a door, Jim would walk through it, and then pray about the next door he should walk through. How often do we pray about big decisions, but when we get the answer, we stop praying? We need God’s leading each and every day, each and every step in the big and small decisions.
Missionaries face many challenging situations. They not only will often move to a new area, if they are foreign missionaries, they will move across the globe where they will be faced with so many more trials and a physically harder lifestyle than most American citizens could ever become aware of, much less have to live that way in their own life.
Positives: This book was a very good book. I think it is the perfect example of a life sold out for Christ.
Negatives: The only negative I could think of would be that this book was not long enough to contain all of the writings of Jim Elliot.
Other Books by this Author: “Reading Too Soon”; “NOAH”; “Boston Revolts”; “You-Can-Do-It Family Ministry Guide”; “Dietrich Bonhoeffer”; “The Boston Massacre”; “Changing Times”
Final Words: Jim Elliot was so focused on being a missionary that anything in his life that didn’t involve attaining that one single goal; he wanted no part of it. He wouldn’t play games or pulling pranks, or even date because for the first 3 years of college, he felt these sorts of things took his mind from the ultimate goal of becoming a missionary.
He later struggled with just these sorts of things as he met Elizabeth and began playing games for fun and pulling pranks on fellow classmates. He still stayed focused on becoming a missionary, but he showed people he was “normal” and not “holier than thou”. Therefore, he was able to reach more people since he didn’t seem so pious and far above them. Even Jesus had eaten with sinners and associated himself with them, in order to win them to Himself. You have to go where they are and get to know them in order to understand them and them to understand you. (Of course, I’m not saying that you need to sin in order to win others.)
Jim Elliot had a single thought in mind from the time he was quite young, to be a missionary. It is not necessary to know early on what you want to do, or that you should feel what the Lord wants you to do with your life. However, if you are willing to do what the Father commands, He will lead you on a miraculous journey through life. You should make yourself available to do the Father’s work. He may not ever call you to be a missionary, but he may call you to be a Sunday School Teacher or Church Janitor. Whatever you are called to do, do it with your whole heart.
Missionaries face many challenging situations. They not only will often move to a new area, if they are foreign missionaries, they will move across the globe where they will be faced with so many more trials and a physically harder lifestyle than most American citizens could ever become aware of, much less have to live that way in their own life.
Positives: This book was a very good book. I think it is the perfect example of a life sold out for Christ.
Negatives: The only negative I could think of would be that this book was not long enough to contain all of the writings of Jim Elliot.
Other Books by this Author: “Reading Too Soon”; “NOAH”; “Boston Revolts”; “You-Can-Do-It Family Ministry Guide”; “Dietrich Bonhoeffer”; “The Boston Massacre”; “Changing Times”
Final Words: Jim Elliot was so focused on being a missionary that anything in his life that didn’t involve attaining that one single goal; he wanted no part of it. He wouldn’t play games or pulling pranks, or even date because for the first 3 years of college, he felt these sorts of things took his mind from the ultimate goal of becoming a missionary.
He later struggled with just these sorts of things as he met Elizabeth and began playing games for fun and pulling pranks on fellow classmates. He still stayed focused on becoming a missionary, but he showed people he was “normal” and not “holier than thou”. Therefore, he was able to reach more people since he didn’t seem so pious and far above them. Even Jesus had eaten with sinners and associated himself with them, in order to win them to Himself. You have to go where they are and get to know them in order to understand them and them to understand you. (Of course, I’m not saying that you need to sin in order to win others.)
Jim Elliot had a single thought in mind from the time he was quite young, to be a missionary. It is not necessary to know early on what you want to do, or that you should feel what the Lord wants you to do with your life. However, if you are willing to do what the Father commands, He will lead you on a miraculous journey through life. You should make yourself available to do the Father’s work. He may not ever call you to be a missionary, but he may call you to be a Sunday School Teacher or Church Janitor. Whatever you are called to do, do it with your whole heart.