CHAPTER 9

August 25, 2007 by Roger.

HIGH DEMANDS OF FAITH

 Faith is an inner character
that must be developed
for the purpose of eternal dwelling.

The opportunities for evangelism in the world today are so great that we must have
laborers of great faith to seek the challenge of world evangelism. We must call on those
who through faith are willing to leave fathers and mothers, houses and lands for the
salvation of the lost of the world. We need those with mountain-moving faith to uproot
and reach out to a world that is hungering for truth.
Evangelists with roots in the West, and residents of the cocooned culture and
affluent society, often glance into the face of faith and shudder because of their own
self-sufficiency. The challenge we see in the world of have-nots always taxes our
dependence on that which is possessed. When we contemplate faith’s demand we
struggle to sacrifice that which is always first to go when faith comes calling – the
security of a world that demands little faith. The empirical walk we so often trust
agonizes down the hall of faith.
There is always something unnerving about faith’s call. It is a call to us in our
secure culture to venture out into the unknown. This is not thinking outside the box. It
is a call to live outside the cocoon of the material security we have created for ourselves.
It is a challenging call only because our nerves and emotional constitution have been
trained to walk on the crutches of the seen and known.
Nevertheless, we fight to allow ourselves the test of trusting the Almighty Unseen in
(This series of blogs compose a book that carry the title, “Making Disciples In A Global Community.” )

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