"Shall not the lamb who was slain receive the full reward of his suffering?"

A while back, I came across a story about two young men who counted the things of this world as loss compared to the cause of Christ.
In the early 1700’s, John Leonard Dober and David Nitschman were both very promising men.

But their lives in Denmark were not what they counted as most important…They wanted to follow Christ.
Both of them had a burden for the lost souls perishing in the West Indies, the slaves.
No one was reaching these slaves, and it seemed as no one could.

But these young Danish men knew a way to reach them, Become one.
And so it was that in 1732, John Leonard Dober and David Nitscham boarded a ship bound for the West Indies.
They desired to go and sell themselves into a lifetime of slavery in the hopes of reaching their fellow slaves with the gospel.

As the ship sailed out of the harbor in Copenhagen, their families begged for them to re-consider.
They would not, instead they yelled back out across the harbor “Shall not the lamb who was slain receive the full reward of his suffering?”
That story gives a whole new meaning to the term “sold out” for Christ.

Wow.....that's an awesome story.