We all need a moment to relax now and then, and what better way than to take a couple of hours and spend them at the movies.

There is one particular movie that you should see. End of the Spear opened last weekend across the country, and from all I have heard, it is an accurate and true portrayal of the lives and deaths of Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian, who were killed in 1956, while serving as Christian Missionaries in Ecuador.

Jim Elliot wrote the following while a student at Wheaton College:

“[He makes] His ministers a flame of fire, Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this my soul—short life? In me there dwells the spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God’s house consumed Him.”

Jim Elliot was martyred at the age of twenty-eight along with the others above. But like all martyrs, God used their deaths to raise up thousands of missionaries who have since taken their place.

Hugh Hewitt writes this concerning End of the Spear:

“Fifty years later hundreds of thousands of missionaries still walk into jungles or off into deserts for the benefit of those they seek to meet and in obedience to the Great Commission.”

Take the time this weekend, to go see this wonderful movie.