{"id":353,"date":"2009-04-16T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:16:07","slug":"through-gates-of-splendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/through-gates-of-splendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Gates of Splendor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/throughgatesofsplendor.jpg\" alt=\"Through Gates of Splendor\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"190\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It was a story that shook the world. In the autumn of 1955 five young men had dared to make contact with a Stone Age tribe deep in the jungles of Ecuador. The goal: to establish communication with a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s mission combined modern technology with innate ingenuity, sparked by a passionate determination to get the Gospel to a people without Christ.<\/p>\n<p>After several preliminary overtures of friendship, the men set out on a crucial January day in 1956 for a meeting with the Waorani tribesmen, who had reacted with apparent tolerance to earlier gifts and messages.<\/p>\n<p>At an agreed-upon time, the missionaries&#8217; five young wives sat by their radios, waiting for news&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, and Jim Elliot was recorded several months later by Jim&#8217;s wife, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor has since become a classic, one that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>272 pages. Tyndale House Publishers. Elisabeth Elliot.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"green\">For more details as well as the option to buy:<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/op45.shtml\">Through Gates of Splendor<\/a><\/strong><\/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>It was a story that shook the world. In the autumn of 1955 five young men had dared to make contact with a Stone Age tribe deep in the jungles of Ecuador. The goal: to establish communication with a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers. The [&hellip;]<!-- 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":{"_s2mail":"","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-5H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}