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By Elizabeth Prata
God does a powerful and magnificent thing by raising up missionaries. He not only regenerates hearts but He establishes some to go to the hard places, live a hard life, and some even to die for His name. The selfish will of the natural man would never do that. The self-sacrificing heart of a regenerated Christian, would.
I think of many woman missionaries who lived and died for His Gospel. One of my favorites is Gladys Aylward, missionary to China. We remember the female missionaries of the 1800s and early 1900s who first went places, like Lottie Moon, Amy Carmichael, Annie Jenkins Sallee, Mary Slessor, and Isabel Crawford… among many others.
This week and last week I’ve presented essays about a few of these female missionaries, including Elisabeth Elliot, Amy Carmichael, and Gladys Aylward. These are ladies who seem to have done “missionary” right.
There are some women who have not behaved well on the mission field, or whose motives for going became obvious via their words or their letters.
We might be inclined to even think of them like super-Christians, given extra strength or morality or character, or who were extra spiritual. LOL, they were simply women, with the same sins, tendencies, and foibles as the rest of us.
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3 Lessons Learned from Lottie Moon: A Slaveholder’s Daughter Turned Missionary to China
I was shocked to learn that Lottie Moon’s family owned enslaved people.
Many of us were told the squeaky-clean versions of stories about great heroes. In history class and Sunday school, we gathered up examples of women and men to emulate. But when we grow up and learn something unsavory or just plain horrifying about those heroes, what do we do?
When I learned that Lottie Moon grew up on a plantation where 52 Black people were enslaved, cognitive dissonance shook my brain. My heart plunged in betrayal.
How could she? She was a Christian—a famous missionary who brought the gospel of salvation in Jesus, freedom from sin and abundant life, to countless Chinese people. Should I not celebrate her anymore? Should I get rid of my Lottie biographies?
No. I chose to lean in and ask hard questions in prayer and in historical research.
I cracked open those biographies (and plenty of other books too!). I visited libraries, loaded microfilm machines, and opened dusty boxes of 200-year-old documents. I interviewed historians and traveled to some of the places where Lottie Moon once walked and worshiped, trying to understand.
How did otherwise faithful Christians who read and revered the Bible