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  WILLIAM GREEN, JR.
  by Charles Finney
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Summary: Charles Finney emphasizes the importance of personal experience
in repentance and faith, and how it qualifies believers to direct others
to Christ.

Topics: "Faith", "Spiritual Leadership"
Scripture References: Matthew 28:19-20, John 3:16, Acts 3:19, Romans 6:11, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:8-9, Philippians 4:13, James 1:5, 1 John 1:9

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In his sermon to William Green Jr., Charles Finney emphasizes the
importance of personal experience in guiding others to Christ. Finney
addresses the struggle of understanding sin and the necessity of true
repentance and faith in Jesus for effective ministry. He encourages
believers to move beyond mere theoretical knowledge and to rely on their
own experiences of grace to lead others. The message highlights the
transformative power of faith and the need for clarity in spiritual
leadership.

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To William Green Jr.

29 May 1837

[MS in Finney Papers # 1235]

Extract in William Green Jr to Finney, 21 June 1837, referring to a
letter from Finney dated 29 May 1837:

I was sorry to read the passage in your letter "I cannot remain a blind
leader of the blind, I must see clearly how to conduct convicted
professors to Christ"&endash; I was in hopes you had got beyond that. I
reconed myself dead unto sin & alive unto God, & believed that Xt would
keep me henceforth from sin. & since I was able to do that, I don't know
that I have felt any condemnation for Sins &endash; yet I do not say I
am free from Sin either, but that I am not sensible of it &endash; All
the directing to be given to inquirers, according to my view are, repent
& believe in Jesus &endash; but one must experience what it is to
believe in Jesus, before he can direct others &endash; I feel that the
wisdom that is spoken of as necessary to instruct inquirers, is all
folly &endash; that any one who knows by experience what repentance &
faith is, is qualified to direct inquirers to Xt. &endash;

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