Easy Church History: You Are Not Starting As Far Back In Life As He Did #churchhistory
Christmas Evans seems like the LAST person who would impact the world. He was poor, fatherless, abandoned by his own family, and beaten for years. He couldn't read or write at the age of 17. When he became a Christian he was attacked by his own friends and lost an eye in the encounter.
But he would go on to be the most famous preacher in Wales' history.
Charles Spurgeon once took an enormous amount of flak for calling out the drift of churches and institutions away from God. Yet his warning still rings true today!
Jonathan Edwards is famous for "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God," but his actually most purchased book was not a sermon, but the Diary of David Brainerd. It helped kick off the interest in worldwide missions in the 19th century!
Jonathan Edwards is famous today for "Sermons in the Hands of an Angry God," but in the 1700s his most published book was the diary of a dying missionary named David Brainerd.