Thomas Umstattd Jr.

The Idolatry of Safety – Part 1

When did we start expecting our missionaries to come back alive and unharmed? If you look back through church history you see this is a new expectation. Back in the day, the Christians who went out to preach the Gospel had already died (to themselves). They saw their lives as nothing. The Moravians packed their luggage in coffins as they went out to the nations of the earth. Sometimes they even sold...