Someone recently gave me a book entitled, "50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith," by Baptist theologian Warren W. Wiersbe. Many of those 50 names are people I recognize and know to be worthy of respect. Yet nobody mentioned in the book lived prior to the 19th century. What about all those spiritual giants who lived before 1800?
I wonder if the earlier spiritual giants are ignored because they were Catholic. (All Christians were Catholic prior to 1517.) Protestant authors focus only on the Protestants, thus missing out on much of the rich heritage of faith that brought us from the time of Christ into the present.
TV~ (Today's Verse)
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.… [Hebrews 11:37]
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