Sadhu Sundar Singh on Sharing your Joy

Sundar Singh (1889-1929?) was raised in a wealthy Sikh family and encouraged to serve God. Educated at a Presbyterian mission school, he rebelled against formal religion. A mystical vision of Jesus changed his life and he was baptized in the Anglican church at age sixteen. His family cut off all ties with him. Thirty-three days later he took on the ascetic lifestyle of a sadhu, or wandering holy man. As German scholar Friedrich Heiler once put it, "He is India's ideal of the disciple of Christ — a barefooted itinerant preacher with burning love in his heart. In him, Christianity and Hinduism meet, and the former stands forth, not as something foreign, but like a flower which blossoms on an Indian stem."

The excerpt from Singh which begins on page 288 of Devotional Classics introduces us to a Vintage Christian who may be unknown to us in the West. I invite you to consider his words and respond to one (or more!) of the questions offered here:

Sadhu Sundar Singh writes that even though our words cannot convey our experiences of God, our actions can. How important are words to you in relation to faith experiences? What role to actions play?

What is your comment on this: "Almost everyone has an inner capacity--some more, some less--to sense spiritual truths without knowing how they have attained them."

Sundar urges us to make the best use of our time. In what area of your life would you like to begin using your time more fruitfully?

If you could ask Sadhu Sundar Singh one question, what would it be?

next week: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Christ in Community (pg. 271 Devotional Classics)
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