Thursday, November 22, 2007

Beyond The Gates of Splendor - Part 1

This is a video that Steven Curtis Chapman shared at a concert a few years ago. I ran across this after searching for videos from the "This Moment" tour online. I first heard the story of Jim and Elisabeth Eliot from Focus on the Family and Family Life Today during a series of interviews on missions and missionaries. "Gates of Splendor" is the novel written by Elisabeth Eliot about her and her husband's mission experience in Ecuador. The novel and movie "The End of the Spear" is the same story told by the surviving son of one of the other missionaries. I wanted to keep this onhand because I have not yet had the opportunity to read either book. Being familiar with both the movie and the interviews- I was drawn to this video and feel certain that I will search it out when I do find time to read each book. Be sure to also watch Part Two below.

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Hope means a continual looking forward to the eternal world.
It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought the most of the next.
~C.S. Lewis