Amy Carmichael was a missionary to India in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s. Read this moving and convicting dream that she had about the church’s responsibility to rescue the lost. Powerful.
“The tom-toms thumped straight on all night and the darkness shuddered round me like a living, feeling thing. I could not go to [...]
The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians – when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration – when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.
- Sheldon Vanauken
‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. [...]
