Adoniram Judson and the Six Years of Empty Pews

In 1813, Adoniram Judson arrived in Burma with a promise burning in his chest — that God had called him to bring the gospel to a people who had never heard it. For six years, not a single Burmese soul converted. Six years of preaching to empty interest, of learning a language so difficult that scholars said no Westerner could master it.…