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Amazing Grace: It's More Than a Hymn

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
The world is in a mess, and Christians know it. Too many of them believe that they have not been called to change the world. What if other Christians had taken a similar position? What would the world be like? John Newton (1725–1807) was an infamous slave trader. The church knows him best as the author of such well-know hymns as “Amazing Grace” and “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.” Even while Newton was a Christian, he was also a captain of a slave ship. “Newton penned the beloved hymn ‘How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds in a Believer’s Ear’ during the leisure time afforded by a voyage from Africa to the West Indies.” In time, however, Newton confessed “shame” for “the misery and mischief to which [he had], formerly, been accessory.”

Posted by Editor at March 22, 2007 04:51 AM