Earnestly consider your role in completing the Great Commission.
That was John Piper's overarching plea when he delivered a biographical message on Adoniram Judson in 2003.
Judson was America's first foreign missionary and an example of one who considered, and executed on, his own uniquely strategic role in the completing of the Commission.
Though warned not to go to Burma, he entered the country almost 200 years ago — in July of 1813 — and there invested the next 38 years of his life preaching Christ where he had not been named.
And the cost was very high. But in God's perfect economy, his suffering had a plain purpose. As Piper explains, "I am persuaded from Scripture and from the history of missions that God's design for the evangelization of the world and the consummation of his purposes includes the suffering of his ministers and missionaries."
Originally an address to pastors, Piper's biography of Judson is now available in a short e-book that leads us to ask the same challenging question, "Might God be calling you to fill up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, to fall like a grain of wheat into some distant ground and die, to hate your life in this world and so to keep it forever and bear much fruit?"
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Biography ebooks in the Missions Series:
- David Brainerd: May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey!
- Adoniram Judson: How Few There Are Who Die So Hard!
- Andrew Fuller: I Will Go Down If You Will Hold the Rope! (forthcoming)
- John G. Paton: You Will Be Eaten By Cannibals! (forthcoming)
