Dying to Self
Story★★★★Someone Once Said ... • When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the captain of the ship sought to turn him back. “}vu will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages,” he cried.
Calvert only replied, “We died before we came here.”-David Augsburger 1 • There came a day when George Mueller died, utterly died! No longer did his own desires, preferences, and tastes come first. He know that from then on Christ must be all in all.George Mueller, when asked the secret of his victorious Christian life • A communist is a dead man on furlough. -Vladimir Lenin • We dye to live, we live to dye; the more we dye, the more we live; and the more we live, the more we dye.-sign in the window of a dry-cleaning and dyeing business
The point
Multiple perspectives on self-death: missionary Calvert accepted death to reach cannibals, Mueller died to self to be fully Christ's, contrasting with other examples of total surrender.