The world is a confusing place right now. We believe that faithful proclamation of the gospel is what our hostile and disoriented world needs. Do you believe that too? Help TGC bring biblical wisdom to the confusing issues across the world by making a gift to our international work. Many today claim Christianity is toxic, bigoted, patriarchal, Western, imperialist, and repressive. In this breakout session from TGCW24, Sharon James explores the profound ways Christians have influenced the world for the better in areas such as justice, philanthropy, health care, education, and the dignity of women.
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. We want your name to be hallowed, your kingdom to come, your will to be done in all of the earth.
And we thank You, Lord God, that your eternal plan is to bring blessing to all nations through Christ. From a very early age, I knew that God wants to bless all nations. God kindly from an early age, gave me a deep awareness of His power and His beauty and His mercy and His love and the glory of the way that he calls people from every nation to glorify Him. I studied history at Cambridge University, went on to teach history in different schools and colleges, including two very happy years teaching in Malawi in Africa, and I now work for an organization called the Christian Institute, which seeks to equip churches in the United Kingdom and beyond to engage biblically in the public square.
You can check out our website if you want to. Many of those years in pastoral ministry in the local church, which we love very dearly. The promises of Scripture are that God will bless all nations, and we can be inspired to pray more fervently for that end as we remember what God has already done.
I want to take you back in time to the year , and over to a fishing port on the east coast of England called Great Yarmouth one Sunday morning, back in a poor teenage girl named Sarah Martin felt compelled to go into chapel. She never normally went to chapel. She had been orphaned at a very early age. Fortunately, her grandmother had ensured that she got education at a village school, so she learned to read and became an avid reader.
