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Hudson Taylor's Impossible Mission - Missional (Philippians 4:13)

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When Hudson Taylor felt called to inland China in the 1850s, everyone said it was impossible. No Western missionaries had penetrated the interior; the dangers were extreme. Taylor's health was frail; his resources were nothing. But he founded China Inland Mission, which eventually placed over 800 missionaries across China. His motto: "God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supply." Philippians 4:13 isn't about human achievement—it's about divine enabling for divine purposes. Mission impossible becomes mission possible through Christ.

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Philippians 4:13

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