Jim Elliot, one of the five missionaries who gave their lives reaching the Huaorani people of Ecuador, understood the value of a life committed to Christ. Nearly two thousand years ago Jesus asked his followers, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36) On October 28, 1949, Jim Elliot wrote the following in his journal, “He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
