John Oswald Sanders

The first one was Richard Wurmbrand, twentieth-century hero.

My other, another twentieth-century hero is J. Oswald Sanders, great missionary statesman.

I was at Trinity Seminary in Deerfield, Illinois, a few years ago working on a book, and word came that J. Oswald Sanders was going to be in chapel.

And I was just hiding in an apartment.

I didn't wanna, I didn't want anybody to know I was there.

But when I heard that J. Oswald Sanders was gonna speak in chapel at age 89, I knew this might be my last chance to see him.

And he's gone to be with the Lord now.

And so I snuck in and sat in the back row, and I remember Uh, this story that he told.

He's always acting as the God man.

Oswald Sanders, well-known Christian writer, puts it like this.

"It's of the greatest importance in thinking of our Lord's ministry and life on Earth that we make no distinction, such as a saying that a certain action or saying was divine and another truly human.

Both proceeded from the single personality of Christ." And I say amen to that, and I believe that's the Orthodox Christian faith.

This was the model of Jesus.

As J. Oswald Sanders wrote, true leadership is achieved not by reducing people to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

As we've seen, God originally chose Israel to be his servant, serving by his side.

He promised to give them strength and help them.