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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today, you get to hear from the author of the only authorized biography on Elisabeth Elliot’s life. Bestselling author, Ellen Vaughn, will share how she used Elisabeth’s private, unpublished journals and candid interviews with Elisabeth’s family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history.
I found this one of the most fascinating and inspiring conversations, and you will too.
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0:00.0 | What is your very favorite Elizabeth Elliott quote? |
0:05.8 | There are so many to choose from. |
0:08.1 | She was such a quote worthy person because she was so articulate and a powerful way. |
0:15.0 | But there's one that I do love, especially it's something like this. |
0:20.4 | If a duty is clear, then the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant. |
0:27.8 | And I can take that and say, okay, Ellen, if God's will is clear, then the dangers or |
0:36.7 | the inconveniences or the hassle or whatever it is surrounding it is irrelevant. |
0:49.4 | Elizabeth Elliott was a young missionary in Ecuador when her husband Jim and his four |
0:54.0 | friends were brutally killed by members of a primitive Amazonian tribe. |
0:59.0 | And incredibly Elizabeth, along with her toddler daughter, stayed and lived in the jungle |
1:05.7 | with the very people who killed her husband. |
1:07.9 | This courageous, no nonsense woman went on to write dozens of books, host a radio show, |
1:15.4 | and speak at conferences all over the world. |
1:18.7 | She was a beloved and sometimes controversial icon of the faith. |
1:24.3 | Well today, you get the privilege of hearing from the author of the only authorized biography |
1:31.5 | on Elizabeth Elliott's life. |
1:33.9 | Oh, it's so good, my people. |
1:36.7 | Bestselling author, Ellen Vaughn, is going to share how she used Elizabeth's private, |
1:43.5 | unpublished journals and interviews with Elizabeth's family and friends to create this |
1:49.1 | amazing biography. |
1:51.3 | I found this one of the most fascinating and inspiring conversations and I know you |
1:57.5 | will too. |
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