Thursday, November 6, 2008

Interesting Tidbit...

From the Call+Response facebook page:

"Here’s another fascinating connection between slavery and “call and response.” Many American slaves used the call and response pattern so often when singing from the hymn book by Dr. Isaac Watts (the man who gave us When I Survey the Wondrous Cross) that Dr. Watts’s name became synonymous with “call and response.” Well, it was Dr. Watts who urged a man named Phillip Dodderidge to write and publish his book entitled, The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. And it was this book that sparked the conversion of none other than William Wilberforce, the man who abolished the British slave trade."

Who knows what our actions will cause other people to do? It's amazing how many spiritual movements have happened in the world because of a few small actions that were the spark for another larger action which then sparked a large movement or revival.

My prayer is that this would happen with the anti-human trafficking movement.

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