OUR GOD IS A GREAT BIG GOD

We had a first, at our evening service last night, in that I can't remember hearing a sermon before, whose text was a childrens chorus - OUR GOD IS A GREAT BIG GOD!

Jamie Grant preached on the simple, but profound nature of this song, linking it to the Psalms and Pauls' letter to the Ephesians.

Towards the end of his sermon he quoted William Carey who famously said, "Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God."

This quote encouraged me to take a closer look at Carey's life curtsy of WIKIPEDIA. What a remarkable pioneer he was in terms of world mission. He taught himself 5 languages while he was still working as a shoemaker and founded the Baptist Missionary Society before spending 41 years as a missionary in India.

Carey had his flaws, and most of the biographies highlight his shortcomings as a husband and as a parent. Whatever his shortcomings were, his achievements were quite monumental.

When he died at 73 (1834), he had seen the Scriptures translated and printed into forty languages, he had been a college professor, and had founded a college at Serampore. He had seen India open its doors to missionaries, he had seen the edict passed prohibiting sati (burning widows on the funeral pyres of their dead husbands), and he had seen converts for Christ.
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