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May 6, 2016 · William Carey [1761-1834], An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means For the Conversion of the Heathens in Which the State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, are Considered.
May 12, 2017 · On May 12, 1792, William Carey (1761-1834) published his pamphlet, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.
Jul 9, 2018 · When you read his main missiological work, An Enquiry, you can see in his words an undying burden, particularly for those who had no access to the gospel. He said that it should be every Christian’s desire “to use every lawful method to spread the knowledge of [God’s] name.”
Contents. 1 - An Enquiry whether the Commission given by our Lord to his Disciples be not binding on us. 2 - Containing a Short Review of former Undertakings for the Conversion of the Heathen. 3 - Containing a Survey of the Present State of the World.
- Lack of Formal Training
- Rejection
- Indifference of Colleagues
- Family Tragedy
- Slow Results
- Cultural Barriers
- The Obstacle List Goes on
- All For What?
William Carey did not go to school beyond the age of 12 when he became a cobbler's apprentice. He was educationally unqualified. Yet he knew God had given him a great gift for languages, and this must be used to share Christ with other cultures.
When Carey was preparing for ordination in 1785, he was rejected when he gave his first sermon as a candidate. It took two more years for him to be eventually ordained to the ministry.
William Carey's missionary concern was ignored until in 1792 he produced one of the most important books in all of church history: An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians. In it he argued that Christ's "Great Commission" in Matthew 28:19-20 was not just to the apostlesbut to Christians of all periods. It proved to be kind of the charter of th...
Carey and his wife Dorothy lost three small children. In India Dorothy progressively lost her sanity and could not cope with the strain of living at a subsistence level in India. They had three other young children to raise. No one would have blamed them if they had decided to pack it in and sail back home to more familiar and comfortable surroundi...
William Carey spent seven years in India before seeing his first convert. And then there was the problem of the persecution of anyone who became a Christian because it meant breaking caste in India.
At the time in India, there were practices that Carey had to oppose as a Christian: children were sacrificed to the gods; widows were burned alive on their husband's funeral pyres.
There was official opposition from the British East India Company which did not want missionaries in India. There was the disastrous fire in 1812 at the mission printing plant that destroyed years of Carey's translation work. There were repeated attacks of malaria and cholera, impoverished living conditions, insufficient funds to eke out even a min...
Was it worth it? Beyond a doubt. William Carey formed a team of colleagues (the Serampore Trio) whose accomplishments elevated them to first magnitude in all missions history. Carey's team translated the Bible in 34 Asian languages, compiled dictionaries of Sanskrit, Marathi, Panjabi, and Telegu--respected even today as authoritative; started the s...
Nov 4, 2022 · In 1806, five college sophomores at Williams College in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, read Carey’s An Enquiry and dedicated themselves to praying for the launch of a missionary society in the United States. Four years later, they helped form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810) to send two of their own, Adoniram ...
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May 1, 2001 · Let’s examine the central indications of Carey’s postmillennialism in the Enquiry. Carey had two questions about the Great Commission: 1) Was the Great Commission directed only to the apostles, or is it valid for all Christians of all eras; 2) Can the Great Commission be fulfilled?
