Our staff is finishing up the book Radical by David Platt. He ends the book with my favorite thing: missionary stories. Radical missionary stories. I fed on these stories when I was in high school and college.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
C.T. Studd was a missionary who didn’t believe in retirement. Instead of hanging it up at the age of 50 he headed for the Sudan. He gave his life for the gospel in the Sudan.

He wrote this:

Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time for waiting is past! … Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, aye, before the sleepy lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world we will dare to trust our God, … and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts.

The writer of Hebrews says this:

“The world didn’t deserve them.” (Heb. 11:38, CEB)

Will we DARE to trust our God? Our action is not future. It is now.