The Greatest Toil Ever Storied: Reflections on Early Protestant Mission to Muslims, Vol 1: Turkey, Persia, Mesopotamia, and the Arab World 1800-1978 - Couverture souple

Livingstone, Greg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0995895171 ISBN 13 : 9780995895171

Editeur : MOF Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Every Muslim people needed "first responders"...the vast majority of them never got in a book...Greatest Toil is THEIR story in Turkey, Iran, and the Arab World.

This book is a love letter from an 80-year-old veteran of the Cross to his family in Christ Jesus, especially to Christ’s ambassadors to the Muslim world. Muslims today are 24% of the men, women and children on the planet and are locked into Satan’s masterpiece, “without hope and without God” (Eph. 2:12). These reflections, looking back on the faithfulness of the pioneering ground-breakers, is all about asking that question: OF WHAT IN THE PAST SHOULD WE BE AWARE? We pose this question so that the making of disciples of the Lord Jesus among followers of the false prophet can be done more fruitfully, i.e. “fruit that lasts” (John 15:16). These bits of mission history were envisioned to highlight efforts of the Lord’s servants, up until 1978, across all the regions and nations of Turkey, Persia, Mesopotamia, and the Arab World. This present volume serves as only a small representative of the many more faithful servants of Christ, brothers and sisters who very likely heard “well done, good and faithful servant” on the day of their Homecoming.

May these vignettes be utilized to cause fruitful reflection on the efforts of those who preceded us. It is hoped and prayed that you will be inspired by those who went before us, and that through the reflection questions you will be able to evaluate present ministries, avoid mistakes of the past, and be encouraged to experiment with what has not yet been attempted.

Endorsements
If you are busy (!) and have time to read only one book on missions history this year, make it this gem. In Arabia, Turkey, and Persia missionaries endured more hardships, suffered the death of more children, and laid down their lives in greater numbers than we who have made some attempt in recent years to follow the trail they blazed. It is not for us to judge those missionaries who came before us--they were made of sterner stuff--but there are lessons to learn, cautionary tales. When one reads Henry Riggs' thoughtful, heartfelt examination of his own missionary life in Turkey and Lebanon and Jerusalem, incuded in an appendix, one feels empowered to keep telling the message, standing on the shoulders of giants.
-Bob Blincoe, Frontiers US President Emeritus
Greg Livingstone, along with his Research Associates, have produced a ground breaking historical overview of evangelistic efforts among Muslims in Turkey, Persia and the Middle East. Perhaps never before has so much information on this subject been published. It is heartrending to read of the dedication of hundreds who went forth to toil and persevere through innumerable obstacles and then see only trickles of converts, many of whom, under intense family pressure revert to Islamic faith. Livingstone's founding of FRONTIERS allowed for hundreds of visionaries to flow forth to every majority Muslim nation in the world.
-Phil Parshall, SIM
I cannot recommend too highly the outstanding new work by Dr. Greg Livingstone, The Greatest Toil Ever Storied. Dr. Livingstone has combined an amazing breadth of historic detail and personal experience with a concern for their application to current missions work. This volume should be required reading for anyone desiring to serve God in the Muslim world, so that they might take advantage of the hard lessons learned by those who gave their lives.
-Tim Lewis, CEO Telos Fellowship, Frontiers International Director Emeritus, Frontiers Senior Strategist
I have known of Greg Livingstone since the early 1990's, and have been honored to know him more personally over that last 4 years. Anything coming from the heart and pen of this catalytic servant of Jesus is worth the reader's time and prayerful engagement!
-Kevin Higgins, General Director, Frontier Ventures

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MOF Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0995895171
• ISBN 13: 9780995895171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
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