For Joachim Neander praise was evoked by life-changing memories from his youth. To say he was a rebel is probably an understatement. Most of his youth was spent with little regard for God and His Word. Sometimes he even outrightly mocked the Word of God and those who preached it. Neander and two of his friends were on such an excursion when they went to St. Martin’s Church in Bremen, Germany to hear a pietistic preacher by the name of Eyck. They went, not to worship; but to ridicule and scoff, to disrupt and belittle. But God
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