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Ten Shekels and a Shirt
Paris Reidhead (1919–1992) was a Christian missionary, teacher, writer, and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations. In 1945 he took an assignment with the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), surveying and analyzing indigenous languages in preparation for evangelistic and educational efforts near the Sudan-Ethiopian border. Reidhead’s experiences in the Sudan deeply impacted the core values that would guide his life.
His best-known recorded teaching was first shared at Bethany International. Reidhead felt God told him that he was not to speak on the subject he had prepared for that day?s message, but he was to share on something very different. The teaching “Ten Shekels and a Shirt” was the result. (Read Paris Reidhead’s account of how God led him that day).
“Ten Shekels” left Reidhead with the conviction that much of evangelism had adopted utilitarian and humanistic philosophies contradictory to Biblical teaching. The end of all being, he came to believe, was not the happiness of man, but the glorification of God.
Transcript here.
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