Comments on: Yokes We Cannot Bear http://sbcvoices.com/yokes-we-cannot-bear/ Southern Baptist News & Opinion Wed, 23 May 2012 14:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dr. James Willingham http://sbcvoices.com/yokes-we-cannot-bear/#comment-6827 Dr. James Willingham Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:39:36 +0000 http://sbcvoices.com/?p=738#comment-6827 Cheer up, Friend! When Baptists are at their most fussy, God is either getting ready to use them to do something great, or is using them to do something great, or has just used them to do something great. Dr. Leonard of Wake Forest Divinity School delivered a paper on the Baptists fussing in the 1700s, and he made particular use of a dear Episcopalian who duly noted in his writings the Baptists and their fussing (not with approval, I might add). And yet at that time those same fussy Baptists were active in securing religious liberty, launching the greatest nation in history, uniting Separate and Regular Baptists, persuading General Baptiss who were not very evangelistic or missionary to become Particular Baptists who were both and intensely so, establishing one of the early abolition efforts (the Friends of Humanity), beginning the Great Century of Missions, beginning our great educational institutions (Brown, for one), using educated and uneducated ministers together, evangelizing in quantity and quality (they made the South a Baptist kingdom and America the most baptized nation in the world - that means the nation with the most people immersed on profession of faith), helped to civilize and tame the rowdy, wild frontiersmen. There is more, but I defer due to time. So just remember the above and cheer up about the fussing. Agitation can be a sign of life even if it does get on our nerves now and then. .-= Dr. James Willingham´s last blog ..<a href="http://thirdgreatawakeningcom.blogspot.com/2009/02/climax-of-reformation.html" rel="nofollow">The Climax of the Reformation</a> =-. Cheer up, Friend! When Baptists are at their most fussy, God is either getting ready to use them to do something great, or is using them to do something great, or has just used them to do something great. Dr. Leonard of Wake Forest Divinity School delivered a paper on the Baptists fussing in the 1700s, and he made particular use of a dear Episcopalian who duly noted in his writings the Baptists and their fussing (not with approval, I might add). And yet at that time those same fussy Baptists were active in securing religious liberty, launching the greatest nation in history, uniting Separate and Regular Baptists, persuading General Baptiss who were not very evangelistic or missionary to become Particular Baptists who were both and intensely so, establishing one of the early abolition efforts (the Friends of Humanity), beginning the Great Century of Missions, beginning our great educational institutions (Brown, for one), using educated and uneducated ministers together, evangelizing in quantity and quality (they made the South a Baptist kingdom and America the most baptized nation in the world – that means the nation with the most people immersed on profession of faith), helped to civilize and tame the rowdy, wild frontiersmen. There is more, but I defer due to time. So just remember the above and cheer up about the fussing. Agitation can be a sign of life even if it does get on our nerves now and then.
.-= Dr. James Willingham´s last blog ..The Climax of the Reformation =-.

]]> By: Dr. Paul Foltz http://sbcvoices.com/yokes-we-cannot-bear/#comment-1133 Dr. Paul Foltz Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:15:08 +0000 http://sbcvoices.com/?p=738#comment-1133 Alas, dear brother, what you have written is all so true. Since the Lord reached down and saved this wretch of a sinner, I have found that much of our misery is self-induced. We must let The lord put upon us the necessary burdens, but not put any upon ourselves [Acts 15;28]. Alas, dear brother, what you have written is all so true. Since the Lord reached down and saved this wretch of a sinner, I have found that much of our misery is self-induced.

We must let The lord put upon us the necessary burdens, but not put any upon ourselves [Acts 15;28].

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