Summary of Ellen Vaughn's Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

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Book Preview: #1 On April 11, 1948, Jim Elliot was a junior at Wheaton College, thirty miles west of Chicago. He and three friends, another Jim, Walt, and Hobey, laughed and kidded one another as they piled into Hobey’s 1946 Nash. They were headed to a local hospital to visit patients and tell them about Christ.

#2 The work for which God saved Jim’s life was to be a missionary in Ecuador’s mysterious green rainforest. He had found the work for which he was suited, and he was loving it.

#3 The five missionaries had dreamed of introducing the love of Jesus to the Auca tribe, but they never received a response. They had a sense that the Waodani were watching them.

#4 The missionaries were excited to meet the Waodani tribe, as it was the first friendly contact with an untouched, violent tribe. They prayed it would be the beginning of a great new frontier for the gospel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669359456

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On April 11, 1948, Jim Elliot was a junior at Wheaton College, thirty miles west of Chicago. He and three friends, another Jim, Walt, and Hobey, laughed and kidded one another as they piled into Hobey’s 1946 Nash. They were headed to a local hospital to visit patients and tell them about Christ.

#2

The work for which God saved Jim’s life was to be a missionary in Ecuador’s mysterious green rainforest. He had found the work for which he was suited, and he was loving it.

#3

The five missionaries had dreamed of introducing the love of Jesus to the Auca tribe, but they never received a response. They had a sense that the Waodani were watching them.

#4

The missionaries were excited to meet the Waodani tribe, as it was the first friendly contact with an untouched, violent tribe. They prayed it would be the beginning of a great new frontier for the gospel.

#5

The event that some say galvanized the Christian mission movement for the second half of the twentieth century took less than fifteen minutes. Days later, the search and recovery party found the carnage. When they fished Nate’s bloody body out of the Curaray River, his watch had stopped at 3:12 p. m.

#6

The story of the men’s plans, their families, and the quickening pace of the journey toward the result readers already knew - the speared bodies floating in the river - made for a dramatic, unforgettable read.

#7

Elisabeth Elliot was a missionary who went to live with the Waodani tribe in 1957. She began to learn their language, and she and her daughter Valerie lived with them. She wanted to forgive the tribe for the deaths of her husband and friends, and she believed that God was directing her to live with the tribe.

#8

Elisabeth Elliot was a Christian leader who was committed to living her life flat-out for Christ. She was curious, intellectually honest, and unafraid of the quest for Truth. Not just about living with naked people who could kill her while she slept, but unafraid that the quest for Truth might lead her to an inconvenient conclusion.

#9

Elisabeth Elliot was a person who accepted that the Lord gives and takes away with equanimity. She did