Downward Discipleship: How Amy Carmichael Gave Me Courage to Serve in a Slum
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Downward Discipleship: How Amy Carmichael Gave Me Courage to Serve in a Slum
By Anita Rahma
William Carey, 2024
108 pages
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Summary
This book defines downward discipleship as a life of surrender and embodies it through the author’s weaving of her stories of service in an Indonesian slum with the quotes and stories from Amy Carmichael’s life and ministry. Carmichael, whom the author considers as a “heroine of the faith” and “Protestant Mother Teresa” (page xi), inspires the author to share how Carmichael can also be an inspiration in the reader’s own journey of downward discipleship. Carmichael invested 56 years of her life in Dohnavur, India, serving infants and young children who were originally destined to live in temples with service that included molestation and prostitution as part of worship. Carmichael also wrote more than 30 books that have impacted readers around the world. In this book, the author offers seven invitations for the reader toward this journey of downward discipleship: (1) from fear to friendship; (2) from self to surrender; (3) from guilt to gratitude; (4) from control to compassion; (5) from mammon to manna; (6) from poverty to praise; and (7) from asking why to welcoming the Word.
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