Have you counted the cost of obedience?

Welcome, it's another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Elliot.

She called us to live to a higher standard each day, not satisfied with

just throwing a little religion into our lives as a shallow substitute for giving God our best.

As the series continues in the coming weeks, we'll hear from family, friends, and others.

They were influenced by Elizabeth's life and message.

Today we continue the missionary's story of Amy Carmichael.

We'll hear from Ed McCulli one of those killed in Operation Alka as he talks about

Jim and Elizabeth and their mastery of the language.

Also Elizabeth has some thoughts for us today about martyrdom and she thinks about John and Betty Stam that's later today. Right now

part 9 of the Amy Carmichael story about the cost of obedience.

Gateway to Joy 282.

You are loved with an everlasting love.

That's what the Bible says.

And underneath are the everlasting arms.

This is your friend, Elizabeth Elliot. and underneath are the everlasting arms.

This is your friend, Elizabeth Elliot,

talking with you this time, about the cost of obedience.

Last week we talked about Amy Carmichael, that amazing Irish missionary to India, whose life has so profoundly affected my own and the lives of probably countless thousands of others.

Amy Carmichael began her work in India as an itinerant evangelist

and she did that for six or seven years with a small band of Indian women called the

Starry Cluster. That was a name that other Indians had given them. And from the

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