Journey To The Nations

email from the summer of 2004

Man… I love summers!!! So much more free time to relax and dig into some sweet books. I’d encourage all of you to continue to stay in the Word and to add an extra Christian book or 2 over this summer time. God has blessed many people with many different stories and challenges that each and everyone of us would be better off if we knew their stories and experiences. I actually just finished this “old school” book my mom had sitting on our family bookshelf at home. Its from the 70s or 80s and I guess she picked it up at a missions conference she was at back then. The book is called “Journey to the Nations - A Study for World Christians” and each of the 10 or so chapters was a segment / essay taken from different writers. It was good! It didn’t really matter that the book was from the 80s, the message is still the same! God continues to search this earth for labourers who will stand up and be counted as His… people who will be consumed by the call of the Great Commission and go out and preach it to the ends of the earth!
Well .. enough of me… here are some quotes I thought were good.

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“We desire men who believe in eternity and live for it” – J. Hudson Taylor

“If Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be, then no man has any right to give himself completely to anyone but Christ nor to anything but prayer” – A. W. Tozer

“We need to become global Christians with a global vision for we have a global God” – John Stott

“History is not a random flow of events. For God is working out in time a plan which he conceived in a past eternity and will consummate in a future eternity.” – John Stott

“The saint who advances on his knees never retreats.” – Jim Elliot

“If God calls you to be a missionary. Don’t stoop to be a king.” – Jordan Grooms

“God’s real people have always been called fanatics” – C. T. Studd

“C. H. Spurgeon was converted at the age of 14. When he was 19 they built him a tabernacle seating 5000 which he packed twice a day – that’s 10 000. How? He waited on God. He got alone with God. He studied … and he prayed.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“I can give you one simple reason why we don’t have revival in America. Because we’re content to live without it. We’re not seeking God – we’re seeking miracles, we’re seeking big crusades, we’re seeking blessings.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“Can you imagine … (a) one-third of a university’s student body coming to Christ in a single year? (b) 50% of those new believers going into full-time Christian work following graduation? (c) more than 20 000 students eventually serving Christ overseas due to the influence of a few of these students?
Imagine it, because it all happened! It began in the early 1800s at schools like Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams and Yale where up to half the students turned to Christ.” – J. Edwin Orr

“There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.” – A. T. Pierson

“Our willingness to sacrifice for an enterprise is always in proportion to our faith in that enterprise” – Samuel Zwemer

“Great victory has never been possible without great sacrifice. If the winning of Port Arthur required human bullets, we cannot expect to carry the Port Arthurs of the non-Christian world without loss of life. Does it really matter how many die or how much money we spend in opening closed doors, and in occupying the different fields, if we really believe that missions are warfare and that the King’s glory is at stake? War always means blood and treasure. Our only concern should be to keep the fight aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice. The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they can have their Pentecost.” – Samuel Zwemer

“Where are today’s C. T. Studd’s, William Carey’s, Hudson Taylor’s and Livingstone’s? Stand up and be counted.” – Ralph Winter