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What John Bunyan’s Wife ‘Brought to the Table.’ – GRACE ABOUNDING

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Thanks to everyone who joined us in the virtual studio to continue reading and discussing John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding. Bunyan’s re-telling of his first marriage is so telling: “My wife and I came together in extreme poverty, without even a dish or spoon to our name. Yet she brought with her two books her father had left her when he died: The Plain Man’s Pathway to Heaven and The Practice of Piety. I would sometimes read these books with her, and I found some things in them that appealed to me.“

Here’s our discussion of the matter of what Christians should ‘bring to the table’ in their different relationships:

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And then, those 2 books! How important are Christian books as means of grace?


And then, John Bunyan thought God was calling him to revere church spaces, altars, and preachers: "This belief grew so strong in my heart that, in a short time, whenever I saw a priest—no matter how corrupt or immoral his life might be—I would feel myself drawn to him, respecting and admiring him. In my love for them, thinking they were God’s ministers, I could have humbled myself at their feet and let them walk over me."

Here's where we discussed this:

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