Tuesday, April 27, 2010

C.T. Studd--a missionary to: China, India, & Africa.

"Our recruits come out from home vastly raw and are largely parrots. They have been crammed with religion as though for an examination, and seem to come out to carry on their education rather than finish it. So many are just taught doctrines without ever having thought them out or searched the Scriptures for themselves. They come out like infants with pop guns. They need to be trained into soldiers with real devil-defying weapons. Some arrive thinking they are the last thing in high-class Christianity and have to find out they know little. That is why I keep the newcomers here at base for a time till I can make them really think out things and settle questions, not from hearsay but from Bible-say."

5 comments:

WTF?! said...

With a name like that, I would quote him no matter WHAT he said...

I know you are jealous. How did you find that quote anyways? By googling 'christian stud' ????

LindaFaye said...

no, you find Sean McMasters if you Google 'Christian Studd'

Sean said...

Let's please focus on the quote I posted.

LindaFaye said...

I think it's amazing how "trained" we can be with little to no actual experience or relationship with God and/or his people.

WTF?! said...

I think there is a larger issue than Scriptural literacy, and that is spiritual connection to Christ, past experience in Christian community, and past experience in missional relationship to the non-christian community...