I picked up a copy of the DVD "Amazing Grace" at a Gramaphone bazaar sale on Friday, and what an excellent movie it is! I am so glad I got it!
The 2006 movie is about William Wilberforce, who in his 20s, had a renewed conversion experience and came to know God. Awakened to God, he was torn between living a life as a man of God (in the Church), and staying in politics as a Parliamentarian. In politics, he would be able to champion the abolition of the slave-trade through legislation. It would be a battle that would require grand vision, moral fortitude, courage and bulldog tenacity ... In the end, Wilberforce was all of the above, and more.
This film is just soooooo inspiring, and having watched it, now ranks as one of my favourites. In one scene of the movie, Wilberforce, still unsure about his calling, is persuaded that he can be a man of God and be in the world (though not of the world). In the end, I can see how God used him greatly in politics to make the world a much better place.
God's people are called wherever they are - in church, in the marketplace, in government, in the arts, in education, in media, etc - to be the force that changes the world. Wilberforce proved just that.
Top-notch movie. Go get the DVD and watch it if you haven't!
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