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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

title:{Some Preachers & Evangelists You Should Know About - RayKongWeiChao}

HI ALL!

This blog is so cool! Very exited over it and I feel really proud to have such a CG blog, hope that the feeling is mutual.

Recently, I don't really know how I've came across some articles online talking about some great man and women of God. I feel that as Christians we shall also know more about them (:

I bet that everyone had heard about Billy Sunday, Oswald Chambers, John Newton or Charles Spurgeon. They are great great man of God.

Oswald Chambers - Do you know that the devotional that we read "My Utmost for His Highest" is written by him?

Born as a Baptist preacher's son in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was rised up in a godly environment. He once had a dream of being an artist.

However, Chambers began to believe God wanted him not to pursue the arts for God's sake, but God for the sake of his will alone. As he later wrote - "It takes me a long while to realize that God has no respect for anything I bring him. All he wants from me is unconditional surrender."

He then abondoned his dream and persued God's will for him and became a preacher.

He wrote - "When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on his word; trust entirely to him and watch that when he brings us to the venture, we take it."

Billy Sunday - another great man of God who was the one Billy Graham, no American evangelist preached to so many millions, or saw as many conversions—an estimated 300,000.

He had never seen the face of his dad, when he was 10, he was sent to an sodier orphanage, raised up by the love of his brother and baseball.

Sunday was once a professional baseball player, but increasing urge to preach to the lost led him to become an evangelist after he became a christian when he was 24.

His wife helped him lots as a preacher, she will always organizes the campaigns and did much of the advance work. She even tried to better Billy's vocabulary in her letters to him.

Sunday was master of the one-liner, which he would use to clinch his practical, illustration-filled sermons. One of his most famous: "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile
He once said - "I'll kick it as long as I have a foot. I'll fight it as long as I have a fist. I'll butt it as long as I have a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition."

-Isn't it the spirit that we should have? Fight till the end.

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