As we learned last time, William Wilberforce was a fighter. As a member of Parliament, he fought for decades to bring an end to the slave trade and to slavery in Great Britain. Why was this cause so important to him? His Christian faith taught him that all are created in God’s image and should be treated with dignity and respect. Biblical teachings compelled him to act and to do all he could to advocate for human dignity and an end to slavery.
At the conclusion of our review of Wilberforce’s life, we made application to our own lives and the challenges we face in 21st-century America:
In light of evils occurring in our own day, the typical silence of the church in response to these evils, and against the backdrop of William Wilberforce’s amazing life and its remarkable, positive, and widespread influence, we are prompted to ask this penetrating question: At the point at which William Wilberforce began the quest that eventually would result in the end to the slave trade and slavery in Great Britain, what would England and the world have lost had he been convinced by a cacophony of voices belonging to pastors and other religious leaders that he must remain silent on the issue of slavery because it was “political”?
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