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The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Call to Surrender: The Call to Simplicity

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0

There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

0:10.6

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

0:16.0

in their original form.

0:18.1

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

0:23.7

her ministry.

0:25.4

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

0:33.1

The call to simplicity, I would like to know how many of you feel that your life is complicated.

0:38.3

Well, about 15 of you think that.

0:46.8

My question would be, why?

0:49.8

Why is it so complicated?

0:52.8

We have too much to do, too many choices, too many things, too many possessions.

1:04.1

I do believe that in every generation it is possible to answer God's call to simplicity.

1:12.7

But we have to truthfully decide how much is enough.

1:19.9

How much is enough?

1:22.2

I read a very interesting article in the Boston Globe, not very long ago, by a secular author

1:28.3

who was asking exactly that question.

1:31.6

And she was recommending that we cut back on everything.

1:39.9

And she was asking the question among other things, what do you give to a person who has

1:43.6

everything?

1:45.0

And her answer was, how about nothing?

1:50.0

And I applaud that.

1:51.3

I am absolutely in that position.

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