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    Here We Stand
    Here We Stand
    Here We Stand
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    Here We Stand

    By Stewart Dinnen

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    "You need to dig down and strengthen the foundations with sixteen columns of concrete, four for each main wall. The original footings were quite inadequate."
    Ruefully we thought, "Wish the job had been done properly from the start! No good having a super-structure if the base isn't sound."
    This book is about foundations - about the basic principles of effective Christian service on which WEC International is founded, which have kept us steady amidst the strains and stresses of 75 years of spiritual conflict.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWEC Publications
    Release dateMay 12, 2014
    ISBN9781310447235
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      Here We Stand - Stewart Dinnen

      Here We Stand

      Foundations for effective Christian service

      by Stewart Dinnen

      WEC Publications, Gerrards Cross

      Smashwords edition

      Copyright 1985 WEC Publications

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works from WEC International. Thank you for your support.

      Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise stated, are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, International Bible Society.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Costly Discipleship

      Active Faith

      Practical Holiness

      Living Fellowship

      Introduction

      You need to dig down and strengthen the foundations with sixteen columns of concrete, four for each main wall. The original footings were quite inadequate.

      Our builder friend was examining the many cracks in the walls of the men's dormitory at the WEC Missionary Training College in Tasmania.

      Ruefully we thought, Wish the job had been done properly from the start! No good having a superstructure if the base isn't sound.

      This book is about foundations — about the basic principles of effective Christian service on which WEC International is founded. The original builder did a good job. C.T. Studd, both by life and by teaching, donated some good reinforced concreting! He gave us the three concepts of costly discipleship, active faith, and practical holiness. To these was added a fourth by his successor Norman Grubb, the principle of living fellowship. The terms used by Norman Grubb in his book The Four Pillars of WEC were simply Sacrifice, Faith, Holiness and Fellowship. We quote him from time to time (sometimes with minor alterations).

      It is over seventy years since Studd went to what is now Zaire and established a work that has since developed in thirty-eight countries, with off-the-spot ministries like radio and literature distribution going on in dozens more. Active membership now stands at over 1,000.

      Such advance and cohesion have been possible only because the leadership and membership of WEC have remained true to the base on which it was founded. We are not denying that there have been failures in discipleship and breaks in fellowship over the years — no human organisation is perfect — but we rejoice in the cohesion and sense of purpose that God has given.

      Come and examine with us these inner, yet open, secrets that have kept us steady amidst the strains and stresses of spiritual conflict and dynamic growth.

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      Chapter 1

      Costly Discipleship

      C.T. Studd was the living embodiment of the principle of the Cross. We differentiate between the event of the Cross and the principle. In the first, Jesus died for me. In the second, I identify with Him and take the position of Paul in Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ.

      Our founder enshrined this principle when he gave the motto for the mission: If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. Studd never had a reputation for being a theologian, but his simplicity had enormous profundity. A few years before Studd went to Congo, a Scottish theologian of international reputation, James Denney of Glasgow, penned these words:

      "The... death of Christ... evokes in sinful souls a response which is the whole of Christianity. The love of Christ constraineth us: whoever can say that can say all that is to be said about the Christian life...

      As long as faith is at its normal tension the life of sin is inconceivable.

      Jesus put it so simply, Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:27).

      A.S. Booth-Clibborn identifies the principle of costly discipleship in the following poem:

      There is no gain but by a loss,

      We cannot save but by the Cross;

      The corn of wheat to multiply,

      Must fall into the ground and die.

      O, should a soul alone remain

      When it a hundredfold can gain?

      Our souls are held by all they hold;

      Slaves still are slaves in chains of gold.

      To whatsoever we may cling,

      We make it a soul-chaining thing,

      Whether it be a life or land,

      And dear as our right eye or hand.

      Whenever you ripe fields behold,

      Waving to God their sheaves of gold,

      Be sure some corn of wheat has died,

      Some saintly soul been crucified:

      Someone has suffered, wept, and prayed,

      And fought Hell's legions undismayed!

      By no other method can the vision of world evangelisation be accomplished. Whether it be Bill Easton being rolled on hot ashes by his tormentors in Colombia, or Jim Rodger, Cyril Taylor, Bill McChesney and many others being martyred for their faith by the wild Simbas of Zaire, or Joan Eley dodging drunken bandits on Venezuelan trails, or Bessie Brierley leaving her baby with husband Leslie as she journeyed back to Bissau, or Dr Stuart Harverson giving his last penny to feed hungry orphans in Vietnam, or Bruce Rattray making endless river journeys to reap the spiritual harvest in Kalimantan — these and hundreds more

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