To be a Blessing is Sometimes Difficult

Charles Simeon is an example of a believer who was a blessing even to people rejected him as their beloved pastor. Charles Simeon’s sermons have blessed my life. He produced twenty-one volumes of sermons. Today the Charles Simeon Trust holds workshop on preaching not only in American but around the world. He being dead still influences though his sermons. Simeon was appointed pastor of Trinity Church in 1782 in Cambridge by bishop of the evangelical wing of the Anglican Church. The church wanted the assistant to the pastor who had left. The assistant’s name was Mr. Hammond. Simeon was willing to step aside, but the bishop insisted and Simeon therefore considered this appointment the will of God.

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4th of July: Are We Celebrating Independence or Insurrection? (Part Last)

What are the Responsibilities of Believers Regarding Government?

1. Christians can Influence those in Government

Wayne Grudem lists many examples of Christians positively and significantly influencing government: “Christians influence on government was primarily responsible for outlawing infanticide, child abandonment, and abortion in the Roman Empire in AD 374; outlawing the brutal battles-to-the-death in which thousands of gladiators had died in AD 404….In England, William Wilberforce, a devout Christian, led the successful effort to abolish the slave trade and the slavery itself throughout the British Empire in 1840” (Politics: According to the Bible, pages 49-50).

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