Contents
Part One
PROBLEMS OF CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
1. Overcoming Tension and Strain
2. The Purpose of Suffering
3. Despondency, Its Cause and Cure
4. Spiritual Decline and Recovery
5. Transformation of the Mind
6. The Function of Conscience
7. The Holy Spirit and Our Handicaps
8. God's Part and Ours in Sanctification
9. The Neglected Ninth Beautitude
10. Some Guiding Principle of Conduct
Part Two
PROBLEMS IN CHRISTIAN SERVICE
11. Conditions of Spiritual Leadership
12. God-sanctioned Ambition
13. The Weapons of Spiritual Victory
14. The Art of Praying with Authority
15. Spiritual Fervor, False and True
16. The Way of Unquestioning Discipleship
17. The Strategic Use of Time
18. What Constitutes a Missionary Call
19. Spiritual Mountaineering
J. Oswald Sanders (1902 - 1992)
Was a general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (then known as China Inland Mission) in the 1950s and 1960s. He authored more than forty books on the Christian life. He became an elder statesman and worldwide conference speaker from his retirement until his death. Sanders was born in Invercargill, New Zealand and gained a law degree in 1922. He attended the Bible Training Institute in Auckland and joined its staff in 1926. In 1931, he married Edith Mary Dobson.Sanders left a promising law practice in his native New Zealand to serve as an instructor and administrator at the Bible College of New Zealand. In 1954 he became general director of the China Inland Mission and led the reorganization of the CIM into the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. He was instrumental in beginning many new missions projects throughout East Asia. Upon his retirement in 1969, he continued to teach worldwide and to write prolifically, with many of his books being translated into German, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, and other languages.
Dr. John Oswald Sanders was a general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the 50's and 60's while it was still China Inland Mission and authored more than forty books on the Christian life. He became an elder statesman and worldwide conference speaker from his retirement at 65 until his death at 90.
Sanders left a promising law practice in his native New Zealand to serve as an instructor and administrator at the Bible College of New Zealand.
He later became general director of the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship), and was instrumental in beginning many new missions projects throughout East Asia.
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