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Friday, 16 September 2016

YOU'RE ENOUGH

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill

There were 10,000 prostitutes plying their trade on the streets of London. Binge drinking, gambling all sorts of morally wrong acts were widespread, in the eighteenth century. The UK had descended into decadence and immorality. Church congregations had declined sharply (just as they have in recent times). Parts of the church had virtually descended into paganism. Yet, the nation was changed. How?

The preaching of Wesley mostly, and Whitefield began to take effect. Their work saw thousands of people respond to the message they preached, and as a result encountered Jesus. Robert Raikes started his first Sunday school in 1780. The growth from this one idea touched 300,000 unchurched children within five years. By 1910, there were 5,668,760 children in Sunday school. God raised up Wilberforce, Shaftesbury and others. Not only were individual hearts
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