Kitabu · 13 sura · saa 1 za kusoma
Wanaume na Wanawake Waliotoa Yote
Soma bila malipo·Hakuna akaunti inayohitajika
Utangulizi: Wale Waliotumwa Ambao Hawakuacha
Kuhusu kitabu hiki
“Yagharimu nini hasa kumfuata Yesu?” waweza kuuliza. Somo hili la kiibada linakuleta uso kwa uso na watu kumi mashuhuri walioitikia wito huo bila kuhesabu gharama. Kutoka miaka ya William Carey nchini India hadi dhabihu ya mwisho ya Jim Elliot, gundua jinsi wanaume na wanawake hawa walivyotoa yote kwa ajili ya Kristo — na uhamasishwe kufanya vivyo hivyo.
Kuna swali lililo katika kiini cha imani ya Kikristo ambalo dini ya starehe hujitahidi kadiri iwezavyo kuliepuka: kwa kweli inagharimu nini kumfuata Yesu? Si ile Ukristo uliosuguliwa, wa kitaasisi — aina ile inayotoshea vizuri katika saa moja siku ya Jumapili na kutodai kitu kwa siku zilizosalia za juma — bali ile hali ya asili, ya kitume, ambamo Bwana aliyefufuka hutoa agizo lake na wanafunzi wake…
Yaliyomo
- 1 Utangulizi: Wale Waliotumwa Ambao Hawakuacha 4 dakika
- 2 William Carey — Fundi wa Viatu Aliyeubadilisha Ulimwengu 4 dakika
- 3 David Livingstone — Mgunduzi Aliyekataa Kuacha Kwenda 5 dakika
- 4 Catherine Booth — Mhubiri Aliyepeleka Injili Mitaani 5 dakika
- 5 D.L. Moody — Muuzaji wa Viatu Aliyeyatikisa Mataifa 5 dakika
- 6 Pandita Ramabai — Msomi Aliyetoa Yote kwa Ajili ya Binti za India 4 dakika
- 7 C.T. Studd — Nyota wa Kriketi Aliyetoa Utajiri Wake Wote 4 dakika
- 8 John Stott — Mwalimu wa Biblia Aliyeuhudumia Ulimwengu 5 dakika
- 9 Helen Roseveare — Daktari Aliyeyaita Mateso Kuwa Pendeleo 4 dakika
- 10 Jim Elliot — Shahidi Aliyepata Kile Asichoweza Kukipoteza 4 dakika
- 11 Elisabeth Elliot — Mjane Aliyerudi kwa Wauaji 4 dakika
- 12 Hitimisho: Agizo Halijafutwa 3 dakika
- 13 Nyongeza ya Maandiko: Neno la Mungu Kuhusu Maisha ya Utume 7 dakika
Maswali na Majibu
What is Men and Women Who Gave Everything about?
It is a devotional study that brings the reader face to face with ten figures who answered Christ's call without counting the cost — from William Carey's decades in India to Jim Elliot's martyrdom. Asking what it truly costs to follow Jesus, the book holds up their raw, apostolic faith and self-sacrifice to challenge and inspire the reader toward the same wholehearted devotion.
What question does the book put to the reader?
'What does it truly cost to follow Jesus?' The whole study is built around that question, using ten lives of total sacrifice to press it home. Rather than let the reader settle for a comfortable, half-hearted faith, it confronts them with people who gave everything, and asks what such a calling would mean for their own life.
Who are some of the figures it studies?
Among them are William Carey, the 'father of modern missions,' who spent decades in India, and Jim Elliot, the young missionary martyred by the Waodani people of Ecuador. The book gathers ten such figures whose devotion cost them comfort, safety, or life itself, drawing from each the lessons of a faith that shook nations.
What does the book mean by 'apostolic' faith?
A faith like that of the apostles — wholehearted, sacrificial, and unafraid of cost, willing to leave everything and even to die for Christ and his gospel. The book holds up these ten lives as modern examples of that first-century abandon, calling the reader beyond a safe, cultural Christianity into the raw devotion of those who truly gave all.
Is this a biography collection or a devotional?
Both — it is a devotional study built around ten lives. It tells their stories, but always to press their example on the reader's own heart and walk, asking what following Jesus should cost them. So the lives serve a devotional purpose: not merely to be admired, but to challenge and reshape the reader's commitment.
Who is the book written for?
For any Christian willing to be challenged about the true cost of discipleship, and stirred by examples of those who paid it. It speaks especially to believers who sense that their faith has grown comfortable, holding up men and women who gave everything as both a rebuke and an inspiration to a deeper devotion.
How does it relate to the companion 'gave everything' collections?
It belongs to a family of companion devotional collections that gather costly lives to stir the reader toward wholehearted faith. Where some focus on prayer or the pastoral calling, this one focuses on sacrifice and the price of following Christ, holding up ten who counted no cost too great.
Where should a reader begin?
At the beginning, taking the ten lives in turn and letting each press the book's central question on the reader. Because it is a devotional study meant to challenge as well as inform, it rewards being read prayerfully and applied, one life at a time, rather than merely read through for the stories.
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