I remember a speaker at one of the chapel services at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where I went to seminary. Having being introduced as our main Missions Conference speaker for the week, he asked us to pray with him. We all bowed in prayer and, after a pregnant pause, John Stensether prayed, “Dear Lord, I will do anything you want me to do. I will go anywhere you want me to go—but, please Lord, don’t send me to Africa. Amen!”
I tell you that man got our attention! You see, he was illustrating the
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