Summary of Dec 30pm talk
“What others have begun is ours to complete.” – Luther Wishard
In his final session at the conference, Claude Hickman highlighted that university students have started every major missions movement. He emphasized students that abandoned all else for the sake of world evangelization.
Samuel Mills – Haystack Prayer Meeting 1806 “We can do this… if we will.”
C.T. Studd “What good does cricket do for my dying brother right now?” Became part of the Cambridge Seven
Luther Wishard Formed the Foreign Department for the YMCA
Robert Wilder “It is my purpose, if God permits, to become a foreign missionary.” Robert helped form the Student Volunteer Movement. At least 20,000 young people went overseas as a result of its ministry.
Grace Wilder “I will pray with [Robert] for 100 students committed to the evangelization of the world.”
Cameron Townsend Started Wycliffe Bible Translators because as he ministered in Guatemala that said, “if your God is so smart, why doesn’t he speak my language?”
David Howard who was at the first Urbana conference and signed a commitment card. His best friend Jim Elliot stood with him and also made a commitment.
Hickman concluded that God is looking right now for men and women, to climb out from the sidelines, leave the safety of the status quo and sell out for the cause of making Christ known to all people. This will require a total abandoment and saying “No” to many good, but not ultimate, things. ”Your obedience has a gravity to it that someone else needs,” explained Hickman.
As we closed, we prayed for the Mahratta of India.
- 27.6 million people
- 99.8% Hindu
- 0% Christian
There are almost as many people in this group as there is in the entire population of Canada. Could it be a student at this conference that abandons all to pioneer reaching the Mahratta?
Personal Reflection
“Where will you go?”
“What message will you take?”
How you answer those questions will determine the impact that your life has on eternity, explained Ken Cochrum at the first winter conference I attended in 2001. It wasn’t until two years later that I determined for myself the answers to those two life-defining questions.
While on a prayer walk one day on a missions trip in Asia, it came. ”God, I want to be about going to the world with the message of the gospel.” Those questions and answers still guide my life today.
I pray that 100s of students from this conference would join the cause of bringing the gospel to the world’s lost.
As you abandon yourself for the cause of world evangelization, where will you go and what message will you take?
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