Ezekiel 22:30
“I looked for someone to stand up for me against all this, to repair the defenses of the city, to take a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect this land so I wouldn’t have to destroy it. I couldn’t find anyone. Not one.”
Mr. Kimball, a Boston Sunday school teacher, began visiting one of his students at the shoe shop where he worked as a clerk. Eventually, Mr. Kimball led his student to Christ. The year was 1898 and that student’s name was Dwight L. Moody.
Twenty-one years later, D.L. Moody, now an evangelist, visited London and a great spiritual awakening took place. F.B. Meyer, a local pastor, went to hear Dwight L. Moody preach and his life was transformed. Later, F.B. Meyer went to America to preach, and in one of his meetings, a student named J. Wilbur Chapman came to Christ. J.W. Chapman became active in the YMCA, where he met and discipled a former baseball player named Billy Sunday.
Billy Sunday became a great revivalist, and in one of his crusades in Charlotte, a group of businessmen came to Christ. A year later, they decided that their city needed another crusade, so they invited Mordecai Hamm to be their speaker. After 3 weeks, Mordecai Hamm left town discouraged because his crusade only yielded one convert to Jesus Christ – a 12-year-old boy named Billy Graham.
One Sunday school teacher just trying to be a good teacher of the Word started the chain reaction that eventually brought Billy Graham to the loving grace of Jesus Christ! One person – just one – can make all the difference in the world.
