History
John Wesley was already an ordained priest, a missionary, and a man of severe discipline when he went unwillingly to a meeting on…
Conversion · Faith · Grace
Wesley · Romans 5 · Romans 8
History
Augustine’s Conversion in the Garden
Augustine – Confessions
Augustine had been running from God for years — brilliant, restless, and enslaved to his desires. In a garden in Milan he heard a child chanting, “Take up and read.” He opened the scroll of Romans and read: “Not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality… but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh” (Romans 13:13–14). In that moment the long struggle ended. Grace broke through. The restless heart finally found its rest. Augustine later wrote that God had been pursuing him the whole time, even while he was fleeing.
How you’d preach it
Classic illustration of sudden, sovereign grace after long resistance.
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Augustine · Confessions · Romans 13
Romans 13:13–14