NIK & RUTH RIPKEN: Serving God's Servants
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🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Nik and Ruth Ripken are back for the second half of our conversation. How do we bear other Christians' burdens (Gal. 6:2), both those living in hostile and restricted nations, and missionaries that serve in difficult places around the world? Why is it so important, before we offer help, to offer a listening ear to hear the stories on the hearts of the people that we want to minister to?
As veteran missionaries who have served for 35+ years, Nik and Ruth offer advice to American Christians on how we can minister to missionaries home from the field.
How should young people feeling a call to missions respond, prepare and pray? Nik and Ruth offer advice for those sensing God's call to serve Him in far-off and even difficult places—and remind us that ALL followers of Christ are called to GO…the only question is WHERE each Christian is called to go to.
How have the Ripkens kept their marriage strong and fresh through 35 years of ministry in difficult places…and how has God used their marriage as a spiritual lighthouse to reach Muslims for Christ? Why is it that Muslims often ask them about their marriage, and about how they raised their children?
What are some specific, practical ways we can pray for missionaries that we support and send out? How do we pray for Christians in the midst of persecution? How can we pray for the nation of Somalia, a nation where the Ripkens served heroically in the midst of a tragic famine.
This special podcast edition of this week's conversation includes bonus material not included in the broadcast version. If you missed the first half of our conversation with Nik and Ruth, you can listen to it here. Their first visit to VOM Radio, following the release of the film version of Nik's book, The Insanity of God, is here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Say you're a young man hoping to become a missionary. |
| 0:04.0 | How should you prepare? |
| 0:06.2 | Nick Ripkin has a very practical first step. |
| 0:10.1 | For goodness sakes, guys, get off the internet. |
| 0:14.1 | Pornography is killing us. |
| 0:16.5 | For every single guy on the mission field, |
| 0:18.8 | we have seven single women. |
| 0:20.4 | It's like guys on college campuses are praying, |
| 0:23.0 | Lord, here am I, and my sister. |
| 0:26.0 | And where are we going to get the tough guys to go to the tough places? |
| 0:31.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples |
| 0:37.3 | that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and |
| 0:45.0 | they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 0:49.0 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
| 0:54.1 | Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network. |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome back to the Voice of the Martyrs radio. My name is Todd Nettleton. |
| 1:01.1 | Last week we heard part one of my recent conversation with Nick and Ruth Ripkin. |
| 1:06.8 | They've served as missionaries in some of the world's toughest places, and they've spent recent years interviewing literally hundreds of persecuted believers. |
| 1:17.1 | Their aim is to show the rest of us what we can learn from our brothers and sisters who have |
| 1:21.8 | faced persecution for their faith in Christ. |
| 1:25.0 | If you missed any of last week's program you can hear it again at v.omRadio.net |
| 1:32.0 | or look at the VOM radio podcast stream when we left off last time |
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