Who was the young woman who survived and shared Jesus with the Amazonian tribe who killed her husband? Ellen Vaughn tells the story of Elisabeth Elliot's life, informed by her journals and the accounts of her family and friends. She paints the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one...
Who was the young woman who survived and shared Jesus with the Amazonian tribe who killed her husband? Ellen Vaughn tells the story of Elisabeth Elliot's life, informed by her journals and the accounts of her family and friends. She paints the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history.
Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal ... and lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her friendship and forgiveness, many came to faith in Jesus.
This courageous, no-nonsense Christian went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over the world. She was a pillar of coherent, committed faith; a beloved and sometimes controversial icon. In this authorized biography, *Becoming Elisabeth Elliot*, bestselling author Ellen Vaughn uses Elisabeth's private, unpublished journals, and candid interviews with her family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history. It's the story of a hilarious, sensual, brilliant, witty, self-deprecating, sensitive, radical, and surprisingly relatable person utterly submitted to doing God's will, no matter how high the cost. For Elisabeth, the central question was not, "How does this make me feel?" but, simply, "is this true?" If so, then the next question was, "what do I need to do about it to obey God?"
*"My life is on Thy Altar, Lord-for Thee to consume. Set the fire, Father! Bind me with cords of love to the Altar. Hold me there. Let me remember the Cross." -Elisabeth Elliot, age 21*
Who was the young woman who survived and shared Jesus with the Amazonian tribe who killed her husband? Ellen Vaughn tells the story of Elisabeth Elliot's life, informed by her journals and the accounts of her family and friends. She paints the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one...
Who was the young woman who survived and shared Jesus with the Amazonian tribe who killed her husband? Ellen Vaughn tells the story of Elisabeth Elliot's life, informed by her journals and the accounts of her family and friends. She paints the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history.
Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal ... and lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her friendship and forgiveness, many came to faith in Jesus.
This courageous, no-nonsense Christian went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over the world. She was a pillar of coherent, committed faith; a beloved and sometimes controversial icon. In this authorized biography, *Becoming Elisabeth Elliot*, bestselling author Ellen Vaughn uses Elisabeth's private, unpublished journals, and candid interviews with her family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history. It's the story of a hilarious, sensual, brilliant, witty, self-deprecating, sensitive, radical, and surprisingly relatable person utterly submitted to doing God's will, no matter how high the cost. For Elisabeth, the central question was not, "How does this make me feel?" but, simply, "is this true?" If so, then the next question was, "what do I need to do about it to obey God?"
*"My life is on Thy Altar, Lord-for Thee to consume. Set the fire, Father! Bind me with cords of love to the Altar. Hold me there. Let me remember the Cross." -Elisabeth Elliot, age 21*
I enjoyed the book and there was a lot of food for thought and ideas to process. I did feel though the story fell a bit flat after she left the jungle and the writer was kind of either just out of a story or material, but it wasn't a completion towards Elizabeth's end years and maturity. It might be that the book was more focussing on how Elizabeth became famous and influential and not so much her in depth thoughts in later years. I would've loved to have seen the growing and maturing and challenges on the reader of a mature later-aged Elizabeth.
