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So we need a new approach with the same message.

As you look back over your life ministry, what do you see as your greatest success and your greatest failure?

My failures were a lot more than the successes. All we want to be is tools in the Master's hand. And failure or success, it does not come into my picture. Maybe it should not come into anybody's. We are following the Master. And I believe a serious message that the life of the church on earth will end as the life of Jesus ended on earth, on the cross.

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Light Force is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers.

More information is available from the publisher.

Open Doors International has more information about its and Brother Andrew's ministry to persecuted Christians. Open Doors USA has information about helping the ministry.

"The Muslim Challenge", a chapter from Brother Andrew's book, The Calling, is available from our website.

Other Christianity Today articles about Brother Andrew include:

The Suffering Church | Increasingly, Christians are harassed, arrested, interrogated, imprisoned, fined, or killed because of their religious beliefs and practices. (May 02, 2002)

Brother Andrew's Boldest Mission Yet: ''Smuggling'' Jesus into Muslim Hearts | Erstwhile "God's Smuggler" (and author, with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, of the book by that name), Andrew goes to places most of us avoid to interact with people most of us dismiss in order to aid Christians in circumstances most of us know little or nothing about. (Oct. 5, 1998)

More about the persecuted church is available from our Persecution and International Day of Prayer pages.

The website of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church offers prayer resources and information about the annual day in late fall.

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