Carry the load

Nehemiah 4:6 · Colossians 3:23

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When Jerusalem’s wall went back up, the book does not record a speech. It records that “the people had a mind to work” (Nehemiah 4:6), and the wall was built. There were trumpets and there were watchmen, but the wall was built by people carrying stones, half of them with a weapon in the other hand.

Most of abolition is like that. Somebody drives the display boards across the country. Somebody books the hall, sets out the chairs, prints the tracts, mans the table, sits with the mother who turned up frightened and hungry, washes up afterwards and takes the banners home. None of it gets a headline, and without it nothing else happens. The abolitionists of the eighteenth century had their famous names, but they also had the clerks who copied petitions by candlelight and the carters who delivered pamphlets to every town on the coach road.

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Colossians 3:23). That is not a consolation prize for people without a platform; it is the rule for everybody. A church that will not carry its own chairs will not carry a cause. And the Lord who counts sparrows counts the stones.

If you can lift, drive, build, print, host or give, there is a place for you. Here are the first moves.

First, as everyone

Pray Sign the Declaration Write to your church Email your MP Give

Then, your part

Volunteer
Tell us what you can do and when; vans, venues, print runs, stewarding and lifts all count.
Request materials
Get tracts and cards posted to you free and put them where people will pick them up.
Give
Printing, outreach and help for mothers run on ordinary giving.
Pray
Join the prayer rhythm; the wall is built by people who pray while they carry.

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