Thursday, May 6, 2010

Why I like Chariots of Fire

Because I respect Eric Liddell - yes, for his stand at the 1924 Olympics, but primarily for his life after the Olympics. After the Olympics Eric Liddell could have stayed in Scotland and spent his life speaking at any number of places, telling his story and sharing the gospel and that would have been fine. But instead, he left a place where everyone knew his name to go to a country where he was unknown, where he would eventually die in a concentration camp at the end of WWII, in order to bring the gospel to people who needed to hear it. It seems there's no shortage of well-known people who use their fame for the gospel, which is all well and good, but Eric Liddell was a man who forsook his fame for the sake of the gospel . . . what am I willing to forsake, sacrifice, or give up, if indeed "love is found in the things we've given up more than in the things that we have kept"?

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