• William Carey Fights Discouragement

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 15, 2010 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Mark 4:1-20, Mark 4:35-41

  Tags:  Disappointment

WILLIAM CAREY FIGHTS DISCOURAGEMENT

William Carey, the father of the modern missionary movement, arrived in India in 1793 with a burden to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who had never heard the name. For seven years he proclaimed the gospel message faithfully week after week, month after month, with not a single native of India converted to Christ. Through years of struggle and doubt, Carey was often discouraged but never defeated. To his sisters back home in England he wrote:

"I feel as a farmer does about his crop: sometimes I think the seed is springing, and thus I hope; a little blasts all, and my hopes are gone like a cloud. They were only weeds which appeared; or if a little corn sprung up, it quickly dies, being either chocked with weeds, or parched up by the sun of persecution. Yet I still hope in God, and will go forth in his strength, and make mention of his righteousness, even of his only."

(From a sermon by David Moore, The Parable of the Soils, 6/9/2010)