I’m still reading through Kidd’s The Great Awakening and came across this story that needs to be shared.  The story involves Philip Mulkey, a rough and tumble back country man, who would later help found a Separate Baptist church in South Carolina in 1760.  Kidd describes that shortly after his conversion, Mulkey

began to preach, first to his perplexed wife, and then to a neighbor named Campbell.  He showed Campbell John 3:3 and told him he needed to be born again.  Campbell began to curse at Mulkey and shouted, ‘What devilish project are you now upon with the word of God in your hand?’ With this, Campbell stripped off his shirt and challenged Mulkey to a brawl, ‘spitting on his hands and clenching his fists.’  Mulkey began to cry, and Campbell put his shirt back on and began to cry, too (263).

The Gospel of Jesus Christ: reducing burly men to tears for over 2000 years!

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