![]() ![]() Like Augustine, his heart is restless until he meets with God: The first scene is set in the countryside near Yale College. Instead of giving a detailed biography, I have produced three short vignettes which may help us. One of Brainerd’s biographers, Vance Christie, states that, ‘On the whole, his radicalism was of a type worthy of emulation.’ Therefore, to mark 300 years since his birth, I thought about how I, as a Christian in my twenties, could imitate or even emulate Brainerd’s so-called ‘radicalism’ (1 Corinthians 11:1). One of these was a young New England missionary called David Brainerd (1718-1747). I think he’s right! History reveals a panoply of ‘radical’, or dare I say the word, ‘extreme’ men and women who took the things of God seriously. John Legg suddenly said something which struck me in response to a question by the interviewer: ‘We’re too sensible these days’. I was listening to a podcast recently on the Scottish missionary John Paton (see Christian Podcast Network). ‘Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ’ 1 Corinthians 11:1 ![]()
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