The Lord gave me a wonderful text when I entered in by God’s grace into the first stages of understanding here. He gave it to me when I had to take up new responsibility in this mission from the time our founder died. I was very young for that kind of work then and I remember how the Lord gave me a word as plain as could be. It has been with me ever since, a kind of thermometer. He gave that word on rest in the famous passage of Jesus in Matthew 11:28: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest,” that is the first of the two rests. That rest is a rest, of course, of sins forgiven. Then He goes on, “Take my yoke upon you,” that means get into service with me. Pull the yoke of the Gospel with me; “and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.” That is the key! We’ll go into that later on. There’s the key! “For I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Now we are getting somewhere.
Karuizawa Japan Conference of 1954
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Norman Grubb (1895 - 1993)
Read freely text sermons and articles by the speaker Norman Grubb in text and pdf format.Was a British Christian missionary, writer, and theological teacher. Despite having a Christian upbringing it was only at the age of eighteen that Grubb seriously began to consider what it meant to be a Christian. It was a conversation with a family friend that challenged him to think more deeply about his faith, and from that point on he became committed to evangelistic work. While recovering from his bullet wound in 1917 Grubb was handed a tract about the Heart of Africa Mission and the work of C.T. Studd in the Belgian Congo. After reading this tract he felt a calling to join Studd in his missionary activities.After Studd’s death in 1931, it was learned that he had left a letter appointing Grubb as president of the ministry he had founded, World Evangelisation Crusade (W.E.C., WEC International), in place of himself. Grubb however thought it would be better to be called secretary instead. W.E.C. grew from one mission field with 35 workers to a worldwide mission operating in over 40 fields with thousands of workers from around the world, all living according to the principle that all needs will be supplied by God with no appeals to man. The mission continues to this day under the name of Worldwide Evangelization for Christ.