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| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1964 Registered: 7-2007 |
"The finished work of Christ" These were the words that led to James Hudson Taylor's being saved. Here's a quote from the article: quote: "Why did the author say 'the finished work' instead of the propitiatory work?" was the question that came before him. "What was finished?" he asked himself; "a full and perfect atonement and satisfaction for sin was made, and the debt was paid," he mentally replied. "Then," thought he, "if the work of atonement is finished, if the mighty debt of sin is paid, what is there left for me to do?" In a moment God's wondrous salvation was apprehended. Here's the little article: http://prayerclub.net/testimonies/text/2087-james-hudson-taylor.html | ||
| Butterfly_poette Registered user Username: Butterfly_poette Post Number: 18 Registered: 5-2011 |
Right, and EGW says that atonement isn't finished! | ||
| Philharris Registered user Username: Philharris Post Number: 2498 Registered: 5-2007  |
I was attracted to the biography of James Hudson Taylor because he was a missionary to China and so were my grandparents. That is where my father was born. Taylor, of course, was there in the mid-nineteenth century while my grandparents were there in the early twentieth century. As I learned about Hudson Taylor I soon learned there were major differences between his outreach to the Chinese and what my grandparents were doing. From this, I learned about his close friend, George Muller, and what would become known as the ‘faith missionaries’. The concept that what God was leading you to do would have God’s support without the missionary spending time asking and raising that support. While they were both men who shared what God was doing in their respective ministries, they never solicited for financial support. What was needed always came when and how it was needed. They would simply pray to God and exercise the faith that God would send the support for what God wanted them to do. When you are doing what God is leading you to do, God will provide for all the needs far beyond what you can even think to pray for. That is faith, their faith. My grandparents, even though they came much later and could have learned from his example, did things differently as SDA medical missionaries. Fearless Phil |
