“A missionary is not a missionary until they set their ax against the roots of the culture’s sacred oaks. They are not a missionary until they have issued a challenge against the central idols of that culture. A mission that only addresses the individual soul and never the society in which that soul operates is an exercise in futility. Only a comprehensive challenge, a message that proclaims Jesus Christ as Lord over everything—including rulers and powers—can win a nation for Christ.”
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“Teach me to be resigned to thy will, to delight in thy law, to have no will but thine, to believe that everything thou doest is for my good.”
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“Thou didst love me before I loved thee,
an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm.”
― The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm.”
― The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
― Papers of Adlai Stevenson
― Papers of Adlai Stevenson
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