FRANCIS ASBURY - Who Will Go Over ?
One year later after he was assigned his own circuit as a licensed minister. He didn’t consider himself to be a great preacher, confessing, “I wonder sometimes, how anyone will sit to hear me, but the Lord covers my weakness with his power.”
Being a mediocre preacher wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, since Wesley’s style of evangelism wasn’t as concerned with powerful preaching or establishing permanent churches as it was about reaching the people.
Wesley wrote, “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergy or laymen, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth.”
Francis’s zeal to preach must have fit the qualifications for fearlessness.
For some time, the Wesley brothers had been receiving letters from American pastors calling for experienced men of wisdom to come over and help the new converts who had come to Christ during the revivals of George Whitefield and those who had followed in his wake. John Wesley was unsure of how to do this but prayed regularly about the matter. Among others, a Lutheran missionary had recently returned from the colonies and warned him that the new churches would soon die without adequate leadership. So, at the Bristol Conference in August of 1771, John Wesley decided to solicit volunteers to go to America. He said, “Our [American] brethren call aloud for help. Who are willing to go over and help them?”The call touched Francis’s heart deeply, and he, along with Richard Wright, agreed to go. They set sail on September 4, 1771, taking two blankets for a bed, some clothes, and ten pounds that had been given to Francis by some friends.
He distilled his own mission statement into these few words:
Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honour? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God and to bring others so to do
- God’s General’s (The Revivalist )
- JESUS SAVES TV
One year later after he was assigned his own circuit as a licensed minister. He didn’t consider himself to be a great preacher, confessing, “I wonder sometimes, how anyone will sit to hear me, but the Lord covers my weakness with his power.”
Being a mediocre preacher wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, since Wesley’s style of evangelism wasn’t as concerned with powerful preaching or establishing permanent churches as it was about reaching the people.
Wesley wrote, “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergy or laymen, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth.”
Francis’s zeal to preach must have fit the qualifications for fearlessness.
For some time, the Wesley brothers had been receiving letters from American pastors calling for experienced men of wisdom to come over and help the new converts who had come to Christ during the revivals of George Whitefield and those who had followed in his wake. John Wesley was unsure of how to do this but prayed regularly about the matter. Among others, a Lutheran missionary had recently returned from the colonies and warned him that the new churches would soon die without adequate leadership. So, at the Bristol Conference in August of 1771, John Wesley decided to solicit volunteers to go to America. He said, “Our [American] brethren call aloud for help. Who are willing to go over and help them?”The call touched Francis’s heart deeply, and he, along with Richard Wright, agreed to go. They set sail on September 4, 1771, taking two blankets for a bed, some clothes, and ten pounds that had been given to Francis by some friends.
He distilled his own mission statement into these few words:
Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honour? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God and to bring others so to do
- God’s General’s (The Revivalist )
- JESUS SAVES TV
FRANCIS ASBURY - Who Will Go Over ?
One year later after he was assigned his own circuit as a licensed minister. He didn’t consider himself to be a great preacher, confessing, “I wonder sometimes, how anyone will sit to hear me, but the Lord covers my weakness with his power.”
Being a mediocre preacher wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, since Wesley’s style of evangelism wasn’t as concerned with powerful preaching or establishing permanent churches as it was about reaching the people.
Wesley wrote, “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergy or laymen, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth.”
Francis’s zeal to preach must have fit the qualifications for fearlessness.
For some time, the Wesley brothers had been receiving letters from American pastors calling for experienced men of wisdom to come over and help the new converts who had come to Christ during the revivals of George Whitefield and those who had followed in his wake. John Wesley was unsure of how to do this but prayed regularly about the matter. Among others, a Lutheran missionary had recently returned from the colonies and warned him that the new churches would soon die without adequate leadership. So, at the Bristol Conference in August of 1771, John Wesley decided to solicit volunteers to go to America. He said, “Our [American] brethren call aloud for help. Who are willing to go over and help them?”The call touched Francis’s heart deeply, and he, along with Richard Wright, agreed to go. They set sail on September 4, 1771, taking two blankets for a bed, some clothes, and ten pounds that had been given to Francis by some friends.
He distilled his own mission statement into these few words:
Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honour? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God and to bring others so to do
- God’s General’s (The Revivalist )
- JESUS SAVES TV
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