Chariots of Fire- the Academy Award winning film introduced audiences around the world to an unorthodox runner and an inspiring Christian hero. Eric Liddell gained celebrity as an outstanding Olympic sprinter. But Liddell’s most impressive personal victory wasn’t on the track. Driven by a deep religious faith, Liddell refused to compete on the Sabbath despite overwhelming pressure from the English officials and Liddell’s fans. Ultimately, he defied all the odds winning an Olympic Gold medal in the 400-meter race, a distance for which he had never trained. Liddell returned the conquering hero to Scotland, but his sights were set on a more significant "race". He was determined to go to China as a missionary.

Fields of Honour, tells the compelling story of Eric’s time in China. It is a love story with a land and its people – as well as an intimate love story with the one woman who understood Eric best. Liddell died in a Japanese interment camp in China. His life was a microcosm of all those who came to share the Gospel. In dying, he became part of the very soil he loved. From his death sprang a new powerful indigenous underground church – full of faith and power and faithful to the Gospel that Eric Liddell went to China to share.

FIELDS OF HONOUR - THE PREMISE

Eric Liddell is a man who has to win. He must win in every area of his life – as an athlete, as a lover, as a missionary. He must win the gold, he must win the woman, he must win eternal glory. He is afraid of nothing on earth – except losing. His spectacular success at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, against all the odds, has only increased his hunger to win on every level of his experience. But his arrival in China has a devastating impact on all his dreams. His love for the suffering Chinese people leads him on a journey that has nothing to do with winning but everything to do with losing. He will lose his wife and family, his physical health and his spiritual ambitions in the ultimate crisis of human experience. He will face his fear of losing – he will learn how to lose - before he can win the highest prize of all: the freedom of his soul.