Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ

The fifth volume in Piper's acclaimed The Swans Are Not Silent series illustrates powerful and enduring lessons through the missional sufferings of Tyndale, Judson, and Paton.
Jesus' words in John 12 are sobering: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it will bear little fruit. The history of Christianity's expansion proves that God's strategy for reaching unreached peoples with the gospel includes the sufferings of his frontline heralds-the missionaries who willingly die a thousand daily deaths to advance God's kingdom.
Pastor John Piper's latest addition to The Swans Are Not Silent series focuses on this flesh-and-blood reality in the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton. The price they paid to translate the Word of God, to pave the way for missionary mobilization around the world, and to lead the hostile to Christ was great. Yet their stories show in triplicate how the gospel advances not only through the faithful proclamation of the truth but through representing the afflictions of Christ in our sufferings.
DEDICATIONLETTERPREFACEINTRODUCTIONGOD'S PAINFUL PATHFIRST BIBLEGOD'S PLANYOUR PERSECUTIONFILLING UP THE AFFLICTIONSEPAPHRODITUSFILLING UP OUR AFFLICTIONSBLOOD FOR THE MARTYRSMAY THE LORDCHAPTER 01WHATEVER IT COSTSAS I LIVETHE ONE-NOTETHE VERY FIRST NEW TESTAMENTUNDER GOD, TYNDALEHE GAVE US NEW PROSETWO WAYS TO DIEHOW ERASMUS AND TYNDALEFROM A LIGHTNING BUGTHE DIFFERENCE: CLARITYAT ROOT: A PASSION BLOOD-SERIOUS OPPOSITIONTHE BURNING FURYWHY SO MUCH HATREDTHE BIBLE MUST NOTSORROWS AND SUFFERINGTHE COLD AND FINALHE WILL EASE YOUR PAINCHAPTER 02BAPTIZED WITH THE BLOODTHE DANGEROUS AND HOPE-FILLEDOVERCOMING CRITICISMCOURAGE IN THE FACECOURAGE TO RISKCOURAGE TO FACECOURAGE TO DIETHE OUTCOME OF HIS COURAGEAWAKENING AT HOMESILENCING SKEPTICSWHERE DID THIS COURAGECOURAGE CAME FROM FATHERHIS COURAGE CAME FROM DIVINEHIS COURAGE CAME FROM A SENSECOURAGE CAME FROM CONFIDENCECOURAGE CAME THROUGH PRAYINGCOURAGE CAME FROM JOY COURAGE CAME FROM FELLOWSHIPHAVE YOU A FRIENDCHAPTER 03THE FRUIT OF AFFLICTIONDEEP FAITH IN SOVEREIGNTYTHE ROOTS OF CONFIDENCEA REMARKABLE CONVERSIONTHE PATH TO MARRIAGETHE PATH TO INDIABEGINNINGS OF SUFFERINGSPRICE OF BREAKTHROUGHDARKNESS DOES NOT LIFTFINISHED BIBLE NEW WIFEANOTHER WIFE DEATHGOD PLANNED ANOTHER MARRIAGEPLEA TO BE PARTCONCLUSIONLURE TO LEAVE HARDSHIPHOW LIKELY CRISIS MARTYRDOMDEATH OF MARTYRSWALK SOFTLY TO NATIONS
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