From abcnews
Dr. Myles Munroe, the religious leader who died in a plane in the Bahamas today, once preached that “the value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation."
Munroe, 60, died along with his wife, Ruth, and seven other people when
the private Lear Jet taking them to a Global Leadership Forum that
Munroe had arranged crashed as it neared the Grand Bahama International
Airport Sunday night. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The Bahamian pastor founded the Bahamas Faith Ministries International
Fellowship and had created a worldwide following with his charismatic
preaching and he appeared to have been anticipating his own death in a
2003 sermon.
“The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are
not important because of how long you live, you are important because of
how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old
rather than being effective," Munroe said.
"The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King.
John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people,
but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history,”
he said.
Munroe frequently exhorted his congregation to live a life of purpose.
“You weren't born just to live a life and to die, you were born to
accomplish something specifically,” he said in that 2003 sermon. “Matter
of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose, that is
success. ... Success is not just existing, success is making it to the
end of why you were born.”
In a different sermon, Munroe hammered home the importance of a life's work.
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose,” he said.
Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie called Munroe "indisputably one
of the most globally recognizable religious figures our nation has ever
produced," and said he was a man "who never hesitated to speak truth to
power."
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