Risk is right, but it's also hard — or at least it is when it involves learning a second language.
Many Christians who have answered a compelling call to the nations soon find themselves in a perpetual plod of learning how to talk all over again. It is tiresome, even discouraging. And John Piper knows how it feels.
Studying at the University of Munich in the 70's, Piper had to learn German from scratch. In this three-minute video, he reflects on that season and offers a word of encouragement to press on and look to God: