I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. Our daughter Valerie was 10 months old when Jim was killed. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death. After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory.

The Aucas were in that category - a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.Ī year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times.

When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. Courtenay Kehnįrom the Author's Web Site: My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. The Cross, as it enters the love live, will reveal the heart's truth.' Whether in a dating relationship, married, or pursuing a call to single life, readers will find Elliot's message challenging them to a true faith in a Christ who lovingly calls us to surrender all. 'Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept His lordship. The perfect antidote for those who flounder in the thinking that 'the Bible doesn't say anything about dating,' Elliot's short chapters are filled with nuggets of wisdom that spell out exactly the opposite. Based on stories, journal entries, and letters chronicling her own five-year courtship with Jim Elliot, she gives frank advice, scriptural directives, and compassionate examples of what it means to follow Christ in the midst of heartache and impatience. Elisabeth Elliot's story centers around one pivotal question: 'Does God want everything?' Her emphatic answer-'Yes'-is what makes Passion and Purity the foremost Christian book on dating ever written.

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