Hello, I’m Joe Pursch, and this is a Transforming Moment. Recently I told you the story of how William Wilberforce, the great reformer of slavery in England, launched out on his mission because of his dramatic conversion to Christ at age twenty six. You’ve perhaps seen his story recounted in the film titled “Amazing Grace”. What you didn’t see in the film, however, was the fact that Wilberforce was physically quite deformed. He was a small, misshapen hunchback, so small in fact that as a boy his schoolmates often made him get up on a table in the school lunchroom and perform tricks. But Wilberforce decided to make people forget all about his deformity by learning to speak with passion about what he believed. In fact, more than once as he argued in Parliament for the freedom of the slaves, he leaped up on a table in front of his fellow politicians just like he had been forced up on a table as a schoolboy; only this time he stood and spoke with such passion about human dignity that his dwarfed body melted away, and for a moment, people simply saw a giant. Have you got a God-delivered message to give? Then go preach it like the giant God made you to be, no matter what! I’m Joe Pursch, and this has been a Transforming Moment.

Listen to the broadcast audio here: Transforming Moments Wilberforces Challenge