Ancient Rome: History of a Civilization That Ruled the World Book

This was a really thorough insight into the work of God in and through one man, how he grew up to become a missionary in China and against all odds (financial, physical, spiritual) to establish the China Inland Mission. It showed the sacrifices he and many others made for the sake of the message that they wanted to share: he lost his wife, three of his children and spent much time alone and away from his family in order to tell those who did not know about the message of Jesus Christ. In this book, there is no sense of the missionary as a coloniser, rather Hudson Taylor and his fellow missionaries assimilated the national dress and food in order to identify with the Chinese people. We might think the days of mission work like this are coming to a close, but maybe we have a LOT to learn from these forerunners about how we reach out to the needy around us today. Getting alongside, walking in their shoes and sharing what we know about God - not in a bid to "covert" or "control", but to simply give them the opportunity to see for themselves the message of the Bible and, using the evidence, decide whether it is true.