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Making the Invisible Kingdom Visible (part 1)

Why "seeking the welfare of the city" is sub-Christian at best.

This post is from my keynote address at the Wilberforce Weekend hosted by The Chuck Colson Center in Washington DC on April 26. My actual remarks may have differed slightly from this transcript. Part 2 will be posted in a few days.

INTRODUCTION

Most of you know that William Wilberforce's pastor, John Newton, wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace." There's a lyric from that song that says, "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see." That's what I want to talk about this evening–what does it mean to not just have sight, but to truly see?

Consider Mother Teresa. In Calcutta, India, in her community, it was their custom to take ambulances every morning to the train station. There they would pick up the dying who had been abandoned there during the night. One morning they found a man in terrible condition. Rats were gnawing on him. Maggots had eaten his flesh down to the bone. He had only hours left to live.

Mother Teresa cared for him herself. She did all she could to comfort him and ...

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