He was a modern communicator.

It's estimated that four-fifths of the entire population of the American colonies heard

Whitfield at least once.

So you got no radio, no internet, no television, and they all stood

in his presence, four-fifths of the population of the country in those days sometime during the

ministries that he had in his eight years that he spent in America.

Why did God use George Whitfield so powerfully despite the immense demands of his ministry?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper examines Whitfield's life, highlighting the sovereign

work of God through his faithful

proclamation of the gospel this message was originally given at the Desiring

God 2009 conference for pastors you pray with me?

Father in heaven, we want so much now to be strengthened in our pastoral labors and our evangelistic labors in our families and in our own souls, our worship of Christ and our obedience to him.

And so be pleased to let Whitfield speak and let his life speak again.

He was so mighty in the Word and mighty in the Spirit.

And by biography, he lives on, and we praise you for that.

He was a sinner, regenerated and justified and now completely pure in his soul, one day to be raised from the dead all by grace.

And I pray that we would learn from him and be helped by

him in Jesus' name. Amen. The facts about Whitfield's life as an 18th century itinerant Anglican

evangelist from the beginning of his ministry until the end are almost

unbelievable. I mean, can they really be true? And all I know to say is that multiple attestations of his life from those who

knew him and the agreement of biographers who don't like him and do like him, all of that

seems to say these things are so, as incredible as they are. So let me try to

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