{"id":252,"date":"2007-07-02T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:15:09","slug":"missionary-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Missionary Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two other related quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGreatest-Century-Missions-Peter-Hammond%2Fdp%2F0958454914%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1183133833%26sr%3D1-2&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Greatest Century of Missions<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Missionary service demands dedication, determination and discipline &#8211; and these qualities are basically rejected by the television generation.&#8221;\u009d (p. 127)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CMS Missionary at Uganda, Alexander Macay, when 27 years old, expressed the singleminded determination common to 19th century volunteers: &#8216;I want to remind the committee that within six months they will probably hear that one of us is dead. But . . . when that news comes, do not be cast down, but send someone else immediately to take the vacant place.'&#8221;\u009d (p. 128)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brothers, we must teach, commend, and exemplify this spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two other related quotes from The Greatest Century of Missions. &#8220;Missionary service demands dedication, determination and discipline &#8211; and these qualities are basically rejected by the television generation.&#8221;\u009d (p. 127) &#8220;CMS Missionary at Uganda, Alexander Macay, when 27 years old, expressed the singleminded determination common to 19th century volunteers: &#8216;I want to remind &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Missionary Determination&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}