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The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Jim Elliot Story

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hear Elisabeth tell the story of Jim Elliot, including rare recordings of Jim and of the men who murdered him.

Transcript

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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 in their original form.

0:17.5

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

0:25.2

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliot. I sat one day in 1960 in a hammock in a thatched roofed house in the eastern jungle of Ecuador.

0:40.4

On the floor in the same house sat an Aukkah Indian by the name of Gikita.

0:45.0

He was holding the microphone of a little tape recorder, a very primitive recorder in those days,

0:50.0

and he was telling me in detail what had happened that afternoon in January of 1956

0:56.0

when he and four other Alka men had speared five American missionaries to death.

1:04.0

His talk sounded a little bit like this.

1:07.0

He didn't come ringing.

1:09.0

Ringing.

1:10.0

Rangi.

1:11.0

I didn't get my money.

1:12.0

Nangi I didn't. I'm not going to get my money not he don't get any

1:14.0

new

1:15.0

what I can come me

1:17.0

a women come

1:18.0

or am I'm gonna

1:19.0

and come up

1:20.0

uh... I'm not only going to be on it. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, that's not going to be.

1:25.0

What, that's not going to want to get,

1:28.0

what I'm going to,

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