Andrew illustrated his sermon on obedience Sunday by telling the story of Mother Teresa in India.
There are so many ways in which she is our fierce woman of the week. We will explore more later.
Here's one: She had been called to India and for 18 years had taught school with an order that spoke English in Calcutta. What happened next? God called her to leave the convent and the work she knew and teach a whole new group of children, in the slums. One day she walked out of her convent without the promise of a roof over her head. She knew that she would either obey, or be walking away from the Lord.
It was on September the tenth in 1946 that Mother Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" while traveling by train to the Loreto convent from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith."[
The rest of her life is just one fearless obedient "yes" after another.
Fierceness is fearlessness plus first-time obedience.
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