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

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

in their original form.

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

her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

She has 16 books to her credit, and we have some of them in our bookstore, and a couple

that particularly you might be interested in, the shadow of the Almighty.

But the one I particularly want to share with you tonight has been produced for this conference.

It's just off the press.

Love, passion, and purity.

It's a fabulous book.

If I have looked at the table of content, it was just put in my hand, that's how fresh

it is, for this conference.

But to read you just a little bit about her purpose in writing it, the framework of the

book is the story of five and a half years of loving one man, Jim, and of learning

the disciplines of longing, loneliness, uncertainty, hope, trust, and unconditional

commitment to Christ.

A commitment which required that regardless of what passion we might feel, we must be

pure.

Ruth Graham has written the introduction, and she says, so amid today's too crooked

thinking, Elizabeth Elliott Green has come up with a straight stick and a beautiful,

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