{"id":1998,"date":"2010-08-26T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2010-08-26T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:21:40","slug":"the-years-they-have-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/the-years-they-have-wasted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Years They Have Wasted&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quotes\">&#8220;People who do not know the Lord<br \/>\nask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries.<br \/>\nThey forget that they too are expending their lives &#8230;<br \/>\nand when the bubble has burst,<br \/>\nthey will have nothing of eternal significance to show<br \/>\nfor the years they have wasted.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>&#8211;Nate Saint<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Nate Saint (missionary pilot), Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, and Pete Fleming were martyred in 1956 at the hand of Waorani (Auca) tribesmen they sought to reach with the Gospel. In 1958 Jim&#8217;s widow Elisabeth, along with Rachel Saint (sister of Nate Saint), went to live with the same Waorani tribe.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebereancall.org\">The Berean Call<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/op45.shtml\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/throughgatesofsplendor.jpg\" alt=\"Through Gates of Splendor, Elisabeth Elliot\" title=\"Through Gates of Splendor | Elisabeth Elliot\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives &#8230; and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.&#8221; &#8211;Nate Saint Nate Saint (missionary pilot), &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;The Years They Have Wasted&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/the-years-they-have-wasted\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8220;The Years They Have Wasted&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[648,868],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-martyrs","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-we","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}