A Timely Word...
Oh that You would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at Your Presence...At age 24, in 1739, evangelist George Whitefield records the following in his journal:
"Sunday, June 17. Preached at Bexley Church, and helped to administer the sacrament to nearly 300 communicants, most of whom came from London. Baptized a person, twenty-eight years of age, whom God had worked upon by my ministry. Dined at Blendon and took sweet counsel with many Christian friends. Preached to above 20, 000 people at Blackheath; and afterwards supped again at the Green Man. There were nearly 300 in the room. I continued in exhortation and prayer till eleven o’clock, and then retired to bed, much pleased to think that religion, which had long been sulking in corners, and almost laughed out of the world, should now begin to appear abroad, and openly shew herself at noonday. Let them count us vainglorious for thus confessing Christ before men. It is a small thing with us to be judged with the judgment of men – to our own Master we stand or fall."
Have mercy on us, O Lord!
Here is a link to essential Whitefield! (check out sermon #1 & 58!)
posted by Daddy, Manf and Bean at 5:35 AM
2 Comments:
fantastic! God, raise up more Whitefields.
10:30 AM
Whitefield was a man who understood that Christ came to cleanse the conscience of sinners, not change the cultural landscape. The beauty of this is how freeing it is for us today who walk in this current world of active transgressors and God haters. Our duty isn't to change behavior and thus the cultural landscape, it is rather to simply placard Christ to our neighbor and let the Savior's blood set them free from the guilt and shame of sin!
RyeMan
7:39 AM
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