How does one exists today without a credit card or a secure source of finance to meet daily necessities? Especially when you are married and have four children to raise up. How to be a good husband and a father, and at the same time fulfil the great commission of His Majesty of the Messianic line?
One such contemporary exemplar is Ross Tooley who hails from New Zealand and has worked for Youth With A Mission for over forty years, starting out as a teenager.
His book "Adventures in Naked Faith" tells the story of his twentieth century to 21st century living for the Lord. He has been working with a missions organisation which does not pay a salary nor an allowance (you have to raise your own fund), a faith-based missions started by Loren Cunningham of USA.
Ross follows the footsteps of exemplary living-by-faith Christians like Hudson Taylor and George Mueller and Loren Cunningham. This type of lifestyle is full of adventurous exploits and "risk-filled" living - for instance, you queue up for an air-ticket without having sufficient money to pay for it, and depend on a last-minute donation meeting the money required. This is like "walking on water", a challenge in "missions impossible" for those prepared to live literally by faith alone.
Yet Ross and his wife Margaret have more than survived for the last forty plus years with YWAM and have raise four kids.
Go out on a limb for the Lord.
Andrew Loh
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