So the quote of George Whitfield about humility is interesting because, more than most people, he must have been tempted by pride. Before he had the white head he's sporting in this picture, he was preaching out in the fields. At age twenty-three, he preached to 23,000 people out in the fields in Bristol in England. The crowd was made up of the young and old, poor and rich, majestic and downtrodden. Most of those that came to listen to him on that occassion and on many others were not to be found in regular church attendance - most wouldn't step foot in a church building! But because Whitfield broke the social code and brought the unbound gospel to the fields, many heard. God must have humbled him many times to enable him to be so exalted as well.
How are we allowing the gospel to be bound in our day? With Whitfield, it was bound by the walls of a church building. Are we keeping the gospel and sharing it only with the social elite in our day? Are we binding it politically, by sharing it only in nations that welcome the freedom of religion? Are we keeping it bound in any other way? Let me know how you think we are still binding it.
More on AA soon to come...
2 comments:
um yeah. where's the promised update on AA and more of your refined thoughts, Seth Hoffman?
we/re waiting dude.
i'll get some more of my thoughts out soon. i wasn't sure if anyone was reading it! glad you posted.
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