Advice for missionary teams

By on 23 October, 2009 | Comments (1)

Jim Elliot Header

Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Great joy in a missionary meeting for prayer and testimony.

Spoke afterward with Carl Johnson of Congo. He counseled Pete and me thus:

1) Never let the sun go down on the slightest miff between us.

Walk in the light with no darkness between us;

2) Always be willing to abase yourself before a native.

“We think and say that we are just being ‘firm,’ but they know that we are angry”;

3) Beware of idols.

In going to lead other men away from idols, the Enemy will put them in your own house. His hobby, he said, was hunting; he got to like it better than speaking to souls about Jesus.

Beware, my soul, of idols.

—1 October, 1951

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excellent advice! one missions survey has reported that disunity was the #2 reason for missionaries leaving the field. (immorality was #1)

Comment by Ben Kwok on 24 October, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

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