God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
Week 13: Legacy and the Ongoing Story — The Epilogue and New Interview
Read the Epilogue and the new interview with Brother Andrew included in the expanded edition of God's Smuggler. Key passages: 2 Timothy 4:7–8; Psalm 71:17–18.
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Sixty years after his first trip, Brother Andrew reflects on what God has done — and the epilogue and interview ask us to consider what it means to finish well and to pass a torch we once received from someone else.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.In the epilogue and interview, what does Brother Andrew identify as the most significant changes in the landscape of global persecution and Bible distribution since his early journeys? What has changed, and what, to his mind, has distressingly stayed the same?
2.Brother Andrew speaks in the new interview about current events and regions of concern — particularly the Middle East and the Muslim world. How has his calling evolved over sixty years, and what does that evolution say about a life genuinely responsive to God's leading rather than a fixed agenda?
3.2 Timothy 4:7 records Paul saying near the end of his life, 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.' How does Andrew's epilogue reflect that same kind of account-giving? What have been the hallmarks of his 'race'?
a.What does 'keeping the faith' look like over sixty years, not just sixty days?
b.What would 'finishing well' look like for you, personally and specifically?