A Nobody Named Kimball
Edward Kimball was concerned about
one of his young Sunday school students
who worked at a shoe store in town. One
day Kimball visited him at the store,
found the student in the back stocking
shoes, and led him to Christ then and
there. Dwight L. Moody eventually left
the shoe store to become one of the
greatest preachers and evangelists of all
time.
Moody, whose international speaking
took him to the British Isles, preached in
a little chapel pastored by a young man
with the imposing name of Frederic
Brotherton Meyer. In his sermon Moody
told an emotionally charged story about a
Sunday school teacher he had known in
Chicago who personally went to every
student in his class and led every one of
them to Christ.
That message changed Pastor Meyer's
entire ministry, inspiring him to become
an evangelist like Moody. Over the years
Meyer came to America several times to
preach. Once in Northfield,
Massachusetts, a confused young
preacher sitting in the back row heard
Meyer say, "If you are not willing to give
up everything for Christ, are you willing
to be made willing?" That remark led J.
Wilbur Chapman to respond to the call of
God on his life.
Chapman went on to become one of
the most effective evangelists of his time.
A volunteer by the name of Billy Sunday
helped set up his crusades and learned
how to preach by watching Chapman.
Sunday eventually took over Chapman's
ministry, becoming one of the most
dynamic evangelists of the 20th century.
In the great arenas of the nation, Billy
Sunday's preaching turned thousands of
people to Christ. Inspired by a 1924 Billy
Sunday crusade in Charlotte, North
Carolina, a committee of Christians there
dedicated themselves to reaching that city
for Christ. The committee invited the
evangelist Mordecai Ham to hold a series
of evangelistic meetings in 1932. A lanky
16-year-old sat in the huge crowd one
evening, spellbound by the message of
the white-haired preacher, who seemed to
be shouting and waving his lone finger at
him. Night after night the teenager
attended and finally went forward to give
his life to Christ.
The teenager's name? Billy
Graham--the man who has undoubtedly
communicated the gospel of Jesus Christ
to more people than any other man in
history.
Where to take it from here...
Remember how this sequence of events
started? A "nobody" named Kimball,
concerned for one of his students, visited
him at a shoe store- and in doing that, he
changed the world. Millions of people
have been affected by his decision to go
to that shoe store and share the gospel
with one person. And millions more will
continue to feel the impact of it.
Can anything like that happen today?
You bet it can. God wants to use you to
change the world.
-- author unknown
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Michael Paul Johnson aka Soaring Golden Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://eBible.org/mpj Rocky Mountain Outpost 207 New Creation Church
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