MISSION CHALLENGES
TAKE THE CHALLENGE
Taken from CT Studd - Cricketer & Pioneer BY Norman Grubb
All the extracts as indicated are from the above book and are meant to encourage new and young missionaries and would-be missionaries to go forth in obedience to the call of God regardless of what some may think.
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"How could I spend the best years of my life working for myself and the honours and pleasures of this world while thousands of souls are perishing everyday without having heard of Christ." (Page 36)
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"We have not received many of God's promises because we have not made room for it; we have been keeping from God what belonged to Him. We have been bought at a price, yet we have kept ourselves back from Him and not wholly yielded." (page 38)
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"Next step - Have a simple child-like faith""The Gospel is free BUT it will cost you everything." (anonymous)
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"What is all the popularity worth? What is all the fame and flattery worth? What is it worth to possess all the riches in the world, when a man comes face to face with eternity? Vanity of Vanities. All is vanity" (page 34)
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I would persuade my friends to read the gospel and speak to them individually about their souls." ((page 34)
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Don't try to find out the Lord's guidance by common sense or through your friends. it will lead you to darkness." (page 35)
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We will never hinder one another from serving thee" (CT to Pricilla on wedding vows - page 80)
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It is easy for God to supply the needs of his servants anywhere..." (page 86)
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It did not seem to us either reverence or common sense to keep on talking to God as though He were deaf or could not understand our simple language or the extremity of our circumstances, or the weight of the word of His Son, who said that God knew everything before we told Him, or as He said Himself, "Before they call I will answer." (page 87)
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