Living a life that matters

True story.

There were a group of Korean missionaries who traveled to Afghanistan to spread the gospel. They were taken hostage by members of the Taliban. They were in a situation where they were certain to die. The pastor of the church stood before his fellow missionaries and told the group that if anyone was going to be killed, he was going to die first, because he was the pastor and if anyone died, he should be the first. Another one of the men stood up and told that pastor that he was the oldest in the group and that they should respect their elder and he demanded that if anyone died, he would be first. They actually argued over who would die first. In the end, a couple of the missionaries were actually killed. The rest made it back to Korea, where they longed to be back in the mission field of Afghanistan, using their lives for the glory of God and the mission of the gospel.

This is a life that matters.