Christian History Magazine—Issue 1: Zinzendorf & the Moravians
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
A man possessing unquenchable zeal for the Church, Count Zinzendorf compassionately offered refuge, peace, and vision to the Moravians, a persecuted sect of Protestantism during unstable times for the European Church. Their story is one of courage, their goal was sharing the Gospel, and their lives were saturated with prayer. Meet the Count, the Moravians, and many more exciting individuals in this inaugural issue of Christian History & Biography.
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Top Highlights
“All of his life, the young count would point to one experience on the ‘tour’ which influenced him most. In the art museum at Dusseldorf, he encountered the Savior. Seeing Domenico Feti’s Ecce Homo (‘Behold, the man’), a portrait of the thorn-crowned Jesus, and reading the inscription below it—‘I have done this for you; what have you done for me?’ Zinzendorf said to himself, ‘I have loved Him for a long time, but I have never actually done anything for Him. From now on I will do whatever He leads me to do.’” (source)
“Constantinople. The golden decade of 1732–42 stands unparalleled in Christian history in so far as missionary expansion is concerned. More than 70 Moravian missionaries, from a community of not more than 600 inhabitants, had answered the call by 1742.” (source)
“The young count grew up in an atmosphere bathed in prayer, Bible reading and hymn-singing.” (source)
“But not until the Moravians did a church as a whole, laymen and clergy, consider the missionary task the duty of the whole church.” (source)
“A Band consisted of two or three or more persons of some spiritual kinship who met together privately and conversed concerning the state of their hearts, and exhorted, reproved and prayed for one another.” (source)
