#224 The Nearness of Christ in 50 Years Of Suffering, with Joni Eareckson Tada
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
At 17 years old, Joni Eareckson Tada dove into shallow water and broke her neck which left her paralyzed from the shoulders down. After 50 years of quadriplegia, Joni’s depth of faith and faithfulness to Jesus has inspired millions of people. She joins the podcast today to talk about how suffering with paralysis and chronic pain has brought her closer to Christ, and caused her to continually focus her heart on gratefulness throughout bouts of depression and despair.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic |
| 0:13.7 | Christianity discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, |
| 0:17.4 | kindness, and truth. And if you can see that I'm a little bit emotional right now, |
| 0:20.8 | it's because I've just gotten off a call with Johnny |
| 0:23.4 | Ericsson Tata and I'm going to bring you this conversation that touched my |
| 0:27.4 | heart and it went so deep and it's just I'm just kind of beside myself right now. |
| 0:33.0 | It was just a really, really awesome conversation. |
| 0:35.8 | But because of her health issues, |
| 0:37.4 | she only could allow for 30 minutes. |
| 0:39.5 | So we're just gonna get right into it. |
| 0:41.1 | Here's Johnny Ericcentata. What an absolute joy and |
| 0:46.5 | honor to have you on the podcast today. I want to say something to you that I |
| 0:50.8 | know probably a lot of people say similar things but I have a |
| 0:54.2 | podcast so I can say it publicly and I just want to tell you and I hope this |
| 0:57.9 | encourages your heart that you have been such an inspiration beyond an inspiration to me. I really think your life, |
| 1:06.1 | your faithfulness to Jesus, your example, was not just inspiring but formative for my view of Christ, I knew I was going to cry, my view of suffering and got me through |
| 1:19.6 | intellectual obstacles even as an adult later because I knew that there were people like |
| 1:24.8 | Elizabeth Elliot and Johnny Eric Santata and Cori Ten Boom who suffered |
| 1:30.0 | greatly and knew the depth and the richness and beauty of Christ. So thank you for |
| 1:34.7 | coming on today. Oh, Elisa, I pray I can live up to your words and your assessment of my Christian character and witness. |
| 1:47.5 | You humble me deeply and honor me. |
| 1:50.4 | So yes, I'm glad to be on and of course I I want to greet your followers and say |
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