Ever
since Eve and Adam in the Garden, God's people have been trying to
let the whole world see how good and how big God is. They have not
always been perfect story tellers, but God has always had a plan to
keep the story moving.
We
read last week about how the very best tellers of God's story have
always been the people who trusted the Holy Spirit to help them be
brave and patient and take care of others. The very best story
tellers were also some of the very best pray-ers.
This
week, I want to tell you about three men who trusted the Holy Sprit.
They trusted God to help them tell his story, and God helped them to
each tell His story in a way that changed how all of God's people
thought about story telling. Just like Peter who we read about in the
Bible!
The
first man was named William Carey.
He
lived about two hundred years ago in a country called England.
William Carey didn't have a very fancy job. He fixed other people's
broken shoes. But, he had a very clever mind, and he spent a lot of
time learning new languages and thinking about God things.
One
of the God things that he thought about a lot was the part in the
Bible where Jesus told His followers to “Go and make disciples.”
You see, when William Carey was growing up, most people had forgotten
about that part.
They
were so busy talking about God's story with each other that most
people had forgotten that they were still supposed to go
and tell His story to people and places that had never heard it
before.
Kind
of crazy, huh? They were so busy talking about God's story that they
forgot to actually go out and be a part of God's story. They forgot
to do their job...
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