Daily Faith with Philip Cameron: Special Guest Pastor Barry Carpenter
About this episode
Pastor Barry Carpenter of Resurrection Church in Daphne, Alabama joins Philip Cameron for a wide-ranging conversation about the deep roots of Christian faith, the power of church history, and what it means to carry the fire of the Holy Spirit into the modern church. Barry traces his spiritual journey from a Quaker congregation in Hampton, Virginia — where a neighbor named Mr. Thompson knocked on his family's door around 1955 and changed everything — through Methodist roots, Anglican influence, and a life-marking encounter at the Asbury Revival. "When desire was birthed in me for God, for his will, for his ways, and to know him — and then eventually to make him known," Barry reflects, capturing the thread that runs through every tradition that has shaped him. The conversation turns to the urgent need for the church to recover its theological heritage, particularly through hymnology. Barry and Philip argue that the great hymns of the faith — written centuries ago by giants like the Wesley brothers and St. Anthony of Padua — carried doctrine to ordinary people in a way modern worship screens cannot replicate. "Good theology plus good hymnology equals good doxology," Philip declares, and Barry wholeheartedly agrees. This episode is a compelling call for believers to stand on the shoulders of those who came before, to rediscover the weight of church history, and to let the Holy Spirit ignite fresh fire in their hearts today.
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Quotes worth sharing
“I've never seen a storm that doesn't eventually blow itself out. It always comes to an end. Whatever you are going through, just whatever circumstance you find yourself in, a good word I have for you is it's gonna come to an end. Peace is coming, and the storm and the waves and the motion will all calm down. And you'll discover that peace comes after the storm. So don't quit. Don't you give up.”
“We are stepping on the shoulders of giants that have passed before us. And unless you understand that, unless you grasp that in your mind and know who you are — I know whom I have believed, and I'm persuaded he's able. The persuasion part of that is, well, this worked for Knox, and this worked for Calvin, and this worked for the Wesley Brothers.”
“Good theology plus good hymnology equals good doxology — it's good praise. And those hymns were written with theology so that a farm man out in the plow who can't read a book can start walking along and praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all creatures here below. I mean, that's where the doctrine of the church was ingrained into a culture.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Barry Carpenter, senior pastor of Resurrection Church in Daphne, Alabama, shares how his faith was ignited through a Quaker congregation in Hampton, Virginia after a neighbor named Mr. Thompson knocked on his family's door circa 1955. Rooted in Methodist and Anglican traditions, Barry recounts a transformative experience at the Asbury Revival where he received what he calls "a new baptism of the Holy Spirit." He and Philip Cameron make a passionate case for recovering the church's theological heritage through the great hymns of the faith — arguing that hymns by the Wesley brothers and other reformers carried sound doctrine to ordinary people in ways contemporary worship often fails to replicate. The episode closes with a challenge to believers to share their faith boldly, trusting the Holy Spirit to confirm the Word.
- Barry Carpenter's Quaker Roots in Hampton Virginia
- Methodist Heritage and Resurrection Church
- Asbury Revival and New Holy Spirit Baptism
- Recovering the Weight of Church History
- Theology Carried Through Classic Hymns
- Hymnology Versus Modern Worship Screens
- God Calls Men to Carry Revival Fire
- Simple Faithfulness That Changes Families
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friends. How are you today? My name is Philip Cameron, and this is Daily Faith. We're late today, and it's not my fault, it's my guest's fault. I've got — I would say I've been traveling in America and speaking in churches for 55 years, and I can count on my hand the men that have impacted me. My guest today, I would say, is like a spiritual brother, a soulmate. We see the world through the same eyes. We have the same hunger for more of Jesus.
Philip:And every time we talk, we just start preaching at each other and sharing what God's been doing. And we almost — I was kind of reluctant to stop talking to him to start this program because we are just contemplating the great things of God. Help us if you would. Today you're gonna meet my friend Barry Carpenter. He pastors a tremendous church called Resurrection in Daphne, Alabama. And he's gonna share with us today, and he is going to be a blessing. He's a blessing in my life personally.
Philip:He's gonna be a blessing to you. So help me by sharing the broadcast. Tell your friends — if you love your pastor, call your pastor and say, switch on Daily Faith TV. Really simple: Daily Faith TV. And that comes live on the screen. There's a thing like a bell — if you hit that, every time we come on it'll remind you and give you a prompt that we're here. And we're also on YouTube: youtube.com/dailyfaith. And you can go there at any time. We've got hundreds of programs now on the Daily Faith TV.
Philip:All our shows are cataloged there, and we've dealt with pretty much everything you can think about. And I know that some of our programs in the past are just so anointed with some of the great men and women in this world today. And none more than my friend Pastor Barry Carpenter. We are gonna have a great show. I'm delighted you're here. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith today. My name is Philip Cameron, and our Christmas set — aren't we pretty? My wife did all that. So I gotta show it to you. You know how things are. We had a great time putting that together. We were all in here as a family. And it was like Christmas, an early Christmas. And of course we've got a brand new grandbaby called Annabelle, which is just — she's the love of my life right now. And she'd never seen Christmas trees and Christmas lights, and she just sat with all wonder at this ten-foot Christmas tree being put up behind me.
Philip:We're just delighted to have you with us. This program's called Daily Faith. And why we're here is we want to be a part of your walk with Jesus. We want to input into you, because sometimes you can walk with the Lord and have no affirmation. You've got no one to kind of nail things down in your soul. And what we wanna do by being here is to introduce you to some great men and women of God that have experience, that have gone through the battles, gone through the storms, and have come out the other side — triumphant, bruised, but triumphant.
Philip:And in your circumstance — I could say for you, whatever storm you're in today — nothing is permanent. Nothing. I come from a wee fishing town back in Scotland, right out in the northeast, a point town called Peterhead. If you wanna Google it, we're two thirds surrounded by the North Sea, one of the cruelest seas in the world, very shallow. So when the winds come, which they do all the time, you can have waves of 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 feet.
Philip:I mean, unbelievable. And I've watched almost breathtaking storms, horrendous waves, but I've never seen a storm that doesn't eventually blow itself out. It always comes to an end. Whatever you are going through, just whatever circumstance you find yourself in, a good word I have for you is it's gonna come to an end. Peace is coming, and the storm and the waves and the motion will all calm down. And you'll discover that peace comes after the storm. So don't quit. Don't you give up.
Philip:Believe in God, 'cause he loves you — a love that will never let go. If you knew how much you are loved today, you would sigh a sigh of relief and just lean back in your seat and realize, well, God loves me. And if God loves me, if God is before me, who can be against me? No weapon formed against you will prosper. Doesn't mean to say they're not gonna be formed against you — that's true. Sometimes you deserve them being formed against you. But when you belong to him and you keep short accounts with him and you love him,
Philip:and you want to serve him more than anything else, let me tell you what happens: he'll fight your battles for you. You are not alone today. And I hope Daily Faith is gonna be an encouragement to you in the name of Jesus. One of the things we do around here is we have a mission outreach. We've been doing this for 35 years. I adopted a baby 35 years ago from an orphanage in Romania. He's now — well, he's not old, but he's got a fabulous wife called Emmy. And Annabelle — that's his baby.
Philip:It took me a year to adopt him. And the place he was living in was a horrendous mess. He had no toilets. They sat on coffee cans, and the rim of the coffee can cut into their bottoms. It was horrendous. They had no heating system. The roof ran water down the walls — dampness. And in the year it took me to get him, I kept going back every few weeks and I fixed this and I fixed that. And the beds were all painted with lead paint and horsehair mattresses covered in their own waste. So I had to replace the beds and the mattresses, and I made little rooms.
Philip:Instead of being in big empty dormitories, I made little rooms, like little bedrooms for them. And by the time I'd finished that year and I got to adopt Andrew, I was in love with missions. I was in love with caring for kids. And I've been doing that for 35 years now. My family does it with me, and they're kind of taking the lead now. And we just reach these kids — most of them orphans that are put on the streets. One of our homes is in Ukraine. We've got a whole village.
Philip:We've got the most amazing place. In fact, my friend Barry — my guest today — he's been with me several times there. And we have the most amazing village of houses called Vatra Village. It's right on the largest lake in Moldova. It was built for rich people to have summer dachas on the lake. And they poisoned that lake with chlorine, and the building project fell apart and the houses were unfinished. So they sat there like that for nine years, and we have gone and repaired them. They're fabulous looking houses.
Philip:And every girl you're looking at right now — if the trafficker could get her, she'd be worth $300,000 a year profit to the trafficker. And instead they come to us, we put them back in school, and orphans are becoming sons and daughters and missionaries. And when the Ukraine war — we've had a house in Ukraine for seven, eight years. But when the war happened there, our kids went up to the border and began to preach and share the gospel and clothe and feed people. And orphans became missionaries. And all of that is done by people like you.
Philip:And I want you to meet someone just now. Watch this video. I think you'd be blessed by it. Her name is Nadia. She's got two sisters at our village called Vatra. Watch this.
Nadia:My name is Nadia, and I am currently pursuing a master's degree in leadership and training. Growing up in a family with nine children was both a challenge and a blessing. We lived in a tiny house where all nine of us crammed into one room while our parents slept in the kitchen. My mom and dad didn't have a formal education, which meant my dad worked tirelessly in construction, while my mom devoted herself to caring for us.
Nadia:Our childhood was tough. There were days when we struggled to find something to eat in the cold winter. We often bundled up in layers of clothing just to stay warm while we slept. Celebrating birthdays felt impossible. We simply couldn't afford special meals. Yet somehow God never abandoned us. He always looked after us in ways we couldn't even see.
Nadia:From the age of six, we would rise before dawn around 4:00 AM to work the fields so we could have something to eat. This often made us late for school, and other kids sometimes teased us, even bullying us because of our poverty. Those moments were painful, but they also shaped us. We learned to lean on each other, to support one another through every hardship. When I finished high school, deep down I knew my parents wouldn't have the resources to help me continue my education.
Nadia:But their lack of schooling inspired me to seek out new paths for myself. So when I discovered the Orphan's Hands, it felt like a miracle. I could hardly believe that such a family existed, that could offer us so much hope and support. When I first arrived at Vatra Village and saw the beautiful homes, my heart was overwhelmed. Our house had none of these comforts. We didn't even have a bathroom or proper flooring. In that moment, I truly understood the depth of God's goodness through the Orphan's Hands family. I felt enveloped in God's love in a way I had never experienced before.
Nadia:My heartfelt encouragement to you is to place your trust in God, no matter the circumstances. Find the courage to hold on through life's challenges, because it's often in those struggles that new beginnings emerge. Remember, this is not the end — it's just the start of something beautiful.
Philip:And she is exactly the kind of girl that the trafficker is looking for. Poverty stricken, no future, no hope, in a little village with a poverty stricken family. And they'll say, we've got a restaurant in Italy, we can give you a hundred dollars a month and a place to stay. And a good girl — not a party girl, but a good girl — thinks, oh my, I can change, I can help my family. And she gets in a car and she's gone.
Philip:Nadia has nine siblings. Two of them are along with her at Vatra Village, and their lives are transformed. What we've learned is the gospel is the primary — the preeminence of what we do. But at the same time, education is the stepladder that allows them to climb out of poverty in a generational way. By the time she finishes her time with us in Vatra Village, she'll have a university degree.
Philip:She will speak English — that was overdubbed in the video you just saw. And she's learning English at a tremendous rate, and her sisters are too. And by doing so, it makes her more attractive for a job in the marketplace. And so what's happening with these kids — they come to us in Vatra Village with no hope. Some are orphans, complete orphans. Some are abandoned orphans. Some are just from poverty stricken homes. But they all need help. And all of what you see, all of those buildings, all of those fabulous places they come to,
Philip:their food, their education, their schooling — it costs over $3,000 a month just for bus tickets to send them to all the schools they go to, their clothes. Everything is made possible by someone like you giving $1 a day. You can change a life for a dollar a day. It's the best deal I've ever heard of in my life. Maybe you have someone in your family you are praying for, that you're asking God somehow to bring them back into the fold — they're lost. And you're praying, God, how can I do it?
Philip:By helping us help someone that has no hope, you are planting the right seed in the right ground that will, I believe, come back in the harvest of household salvation for your family. Your prodigal — looking at home — doesn't have to live in the pig pen forever. And I just ask you to pray today. If you could help us with a one-time gift, we are about to expand into a whole new building program that is, naturally speaking, terrifying — faith wise, I can't wait to get started. But you can contact us.
Philip:The Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. You can go to Daily Faith TV and there's a giving page there, and you can follow the instructions. You can go by phone — if you're like me, I'd rather just phone and get it done. 833 — just dial Daily Faith on your phone pad. And someone will pick up the phone. A live person will pick up the phone. You won't have a machine taking your call — a real person. And I believe there are businessmen and women that God has blessed for this season, for this kind of thing, to help us.
Philip:And if you could do that, you would literally change someone's life. If you can make a gift — we have two houses we're about to believe God for, and we're looking for businesses to sponsor an entire house. And I believe God's talking to you. Let the Lord speak to you. I love to hear from you.
Philip:My friend Barry Carpenter has been a friend of mine for many, many years. We've helped each other through some pretty dark nights and we've watched the sunrise come in with the victory of Jesus. He pastors right now a tremendous church — oh my goodness — called Resurrection Church. A great name, a great place in Daphne, Alabama. If you're anywhere in this area, go and see my friend. It'll change your life. And I'm just thrilled to have him with me. Barry, welcome to Daily Faith.
Barry Carpenter:It's just like meeting an old friend, which you really are. God bless you. How are things with you, my brother? God is so good. Awesome, actually. Awesome. He's awesome. And I'm so happy to be with you because it is like two kindred hearts.
Philip:Absolutely. Across my years of traveling — 55 years now — I've been traveling in this country and preaching in churches almost every Sunday of my life. And for years we traveled seven nights a week in little house groups and all kinds of things all over America. And out of thousands of men and women I've met, you are one of three or four that I would say God put in my life for eternity. And I'm so grateful to you.
Philip:I know that you come from a Methodist tradition, and we've teased each other over the years — me being a crazy Pentecostal and you being a historian with great knowledge of the history of the church. And you make me jealous sometimes. But tell us, tell us what God's been doing with you in Resurrection over the last number of years. How he's pulled you into an even greater relationship with him. I think it's amazing what God's done for you.
Barry Carpenter:Yeah, I'm a product — you know, God is my father and the church is my mother, so said Martin Luther. But I'm a product of the Methodist movement. My heart was strangely warmed, as John Wesley's was, because of the Holy Spirit and through the Methodist movement. But that's not the church that it is today — the United Methodist Church. But Methodists are all over the world in all different kinds of names. And Resurrection Church has those Methodist roots.
Barry Carpenter's Quaker Roots in Hampton Virginia
Barry Carpenter:But I actually — my parents were converted when a man knocked on their door in Hampton, Virginia, 315 Holt Street in Hampton, Virginia, around 1955. And my father didn't go to church, nor did my mother, and they had three boys. He wanted them to be athletes, because he was a semi-pro athlete and played baseball, and that consumed him. So his dream was for us to play ball. But it all changed when a man by the name of Mr. Thompson — who is a patron saint of the Carpenter family — knocked on our door and invited us to the Quaker church. It's called the First Friends Church, Park Avenue.
Barry Carpenter:And in Hampton, Virginia — right there at Newport News and Hampton — in fact, the dividing line for the city went right down the middle of the street in front of the Quaker Church. And that's where we cut our teeth on the gospel. That's where I was melted to prayer. And just last year, my wife gave me a surprise on my birthday to go back to Hampton, Virginia. And we went there, and one of the places I had to go and worship was on the steps of that Quaker Church. It's now some other kind of church, but it has great memory to me because that's where the birth of desire came.
Methodist Heritage and Resurrection Church
Barry Carpenter:And when desire was birthed in me — for God, for his will, for his ways, and to know him, and then eventually to make him known. So yeah, Quakers in me, but also Anglicans — the Church of England. In my small study here in my home, I have some symbols of the faith. St. Anthony, who was born in 1195, was one of the greatest orators and preachers of the church in those days.
Barry Carpenter:And he died in his thirties. But he was a powerful preacher who so impressed St. Francis. And then the Wesley Brothers and all those who informed my faith — they've informed me. But I've also experienced new things. The Holy Spirit is doing new things every day. I was part of the Asbury Revival a couple of years ago on the campus of Asbury University, across the street from Asbury Seminary — a Methodist community of intellectual pursuits. And I went there and I spent time actually sitting on the floor in the chapel, because there was no other room. And I spent the whole day there and experienced something that I guess has marked my life — a new baptism of the Holy Spirit, a new understanding.
Asbury Revival and New Holy Spirit Baptism
Barry Carpenter:It's more than understanding. It's a new possession, a new joy. What I sense whenever I'm in your presence and I talk with you — I'm so aware of how, how minute the depth is. Pentecostal churches have no sense of history. You know, Azusa Street is about the biggest thing we ever talk about, and that's very rarely. And I think that the church has lost a great deal of its direction because there's no tailwind behind us. We didn't just fall out of the sky and say, well, here we are.
Barry Carpenter:We are stepping on the shoulders of giants that have passed before us. And unless you understand that, unless you grasp that in your mind and know who you are — I know whom I have believed, and I'm persuaded he's able. The persuasion part of that is, well, this worked for Knox, and this worked for Calvin, and this worked for the Wesley Brothers. I spoke one night in this old, old cottage in England, and the floor had great big slate slabs, ten feet long, square slabs.
Barry Carpenter:And I spoke before this huge fire. And after the service, this man came up and he says, did you feel anything special tonight? And I said, why? It was wonderful. I enjoyed being here so much, speaking to the group. And he says, no — he says, this is where the Wesley Brothers came, and they stood right where you stood, in front of that hearth fire. And I said to the man, I wish to heavens you had told me before I spoke, because it would've put much more weight into the moment I was living in.
Barry Carpenter:And that is descriptive, because we don't know where we have come from. We don't know the weight of our history that has brought us here. I'm not here as an island unto myself. I can trace myself back through movements of God back in Scotland and England.
Recovering the Weight of Church History
Philip:But we have been remiss. Our kids are growing up — I was telling you before, the reason why we're late for starting the program — my dad, when we started our Bible school in Scotland, we were known in America for the praise ministry that we had, the praise songs. And then the Full Gospel Business Fellowship and the Catholic renewal began with our songs. And he says, you're not gonna sing one of those songs. You're gonna learn the hymns of the church. And he literally put me through a Bible school of hymnology, going through all the old hymns. And what I thought was gonna be a boring exercise became the most incredible adventure, learning songs that were written 500 years ago.
Theology Carried Through Classic Hymns
Philip:And we no longer have that. Good theology plus good hymnology equals good doxology — it's good praise. And those hymns were written with theology so that a farm man out in the plow who can't read a book can start walking along and praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all creatures here below. I mean, that's where the doctrine of the church was ingrained into a culture. And that's all gone, because there are screens up on top of us that we look at, and if they switch the screen off, we wouldn't know what we were singing.
Philip:But you can sing the Gloria Patri — which is glory be to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Ghost — you can sing that. Or you can sing some modern songs that were written yesterday or a year before and don't have the spirit and don't have the power. It's all kind of messed up. And it's all weak. It's all watered down. It's the spirit that gives life. It's the spirit that gives life to something Philip Cameron wrote.
Barry Carpenter:Yeah. And we were talking about new songs that we just discovered today, or new lyrics. I wanna just talk about you a minute, because when I met you — be kind.
Philip:Be kind.
Barry Carpenter:We were in jail together. He was in the next cell. No — I was pastor in Montgomery, Alabama. And Philip Cameron, somehow by divine providence, became my friend. And you've heard that story about the little woman who lived in a shoe and she had so many children she didn't know what to do? Well, this is the male counterpart of that story — the little man who lived in a church. He has so many children. They're just growing, and they're in different continents. And he's taking care of this big family called Orphan's Hands.
Hymnology Versus Modern Worship Screens
Barry Carpenter:And one thing I admire about Philip is his emphasis on family faith. And we just had a big event two weeks ago — a week and a half ago — at our church here in Daphne called The Gathering of Champions. And it is an outreach to men. We had 230 men or so who came for the day. And the emphasis was: when God births anything, he calls a man. Surely he calls a man, and not a program, but a man. And he puts a fire in his heart, like John Wesley on Aldersgate Street.
Barry Carpenter:And when his heart was strangely warmed, it was the beginning of a Pentecostal fire. When he wanted to put the children of Israel delivered, he had a fire start in a bush. And he called this man named Moses. And so throughout history, God has planted fire in the heart of men. Mr. Thompson — God rest his soul — he had fire for Jesus. He loved Jesus. He was a Quaker. You know, some people think about the Quaker man on the oats box, but that's not the Quakers today.
God Calls Men to Carry Revival Fire
Barry Carpenter:But the theology I learned and everything really was birthed by a knock on our door. It was just a simple knock on the door. It changed a whole family. Whole family. And that's what God works — talking about Mr. Thompson — God works in the small acts of faithfulness.
Philip:And two young boys came to our town in Scotland, preached for six weeks, and there were 96 conversions. 67 were Camerons. That's how we found Jesus and family faith. There are folk watching us today that are going through such a storm you can't even think outside of the storm. Go and tell someone today about Jesus. Find a way to talk about your faith. And as you talk, the affirmation of the Holy Ghost will come upon you.
Simple Faithfulness That Changes Families
Philip:Barry, our time is gone. 36 seconds left in this program. It has gone far too soon. And we have got to do this again, 'cause every time I talk to you, my heart is strangely warmed.
Barry Carpenter:I love it. I love it. All glory to Jesus.
Philip:Barry Carpenter pastors Resurrection Church in Daphne, Alabama. A great man of God, a great church, a complete Jesus lover. If you're anywhere near him, go and see him and tell him we sent you. Thank you for being with me today, my friend. We love you so much, and thank you for watching Daily Faith. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova — from providing running water, flushing toilets, and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons. And in the process, orphans become daughters and sons.
They come to know their heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus. God help the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness. Now no longer orphans, they want to return and invade that very same darkness with the light of Jesus Christ. The Orphan's Hands equips these daughters and sons to become missionaries. Your monthly gift of $31 will allow us to rescue and take in more girls and boys, saving them from the hell of human trafficking.
Your monthly partnership will allow us to care for those in the Orphan's Hands homes in Moldova and Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 833 Daily Faith. You can also give by going online to www.dailyfaith.tv, or by writing to Post Office Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So many lives depend on what we do. Thank you for loving the lost.
Common questions
How did Barry Carpenter first come to faith, and what church tradition shaped him?
Barry's parents were brought to faith when a man named Mr. Thompson knocked on their door in Hampton, Virginia, around 1955 and invited the family to a Quaker church called First Friends Church. That congregation is where Barry says 'the birth of desire' for God came alive in him, and he traces his roots through Quaker, Anglican, and Methodist traditions — though he notes the Methodist church he grew up in is very different from the United Methodist Church of today.
What happened to Barry at the Asbury Revival, and how did it change him?
Barry attended the Asbury Revival on the campus of Asbury University and spent an entire day sitting on the chapel floor because there was no other room. He describes it as receiving 'a new baptism of the Holy Spirit' — not just a new understanding, but what he calls 'a new possession, a new joy' that he says has marked his life.
Why does Barry think the modern church has lost its sense of direction?
Barry believes the church has lost its 'tailwind' because it has no real grasp of its own history. He says Pentecostal churches rarely talk about anything older than Azusa Street, and that unless believers understand they are 'stepping on the shoulders of giants,' they lose the persuasive confidence that comes from knowing the faith worked for Knox, Calvin, and the Wesley Brothers before them.
What was the focus of the 'Gathering of Champions' event at Resurrection Church?
The Gathering of Champions was an outreach to men held at Resurrection Church in Daphne, Alabama, drawing around 230 attendees. Barry says the central message was that 'when God births anything, he calls a man' — pointing to figures like Moses and John Wesley as examples of God planting fire in the hearts of individual men rather than relying on programs.
What does Barry say about small, ordinary acts of faithfulness — like Mr. Thompson's knock on the door?
Barry holds up Mr. Thompson's simple knock on his family's door as a defining example of how God works through small acts of faithfulness. That one knock led to the conversion of his entire family and ultimately shaped Barry's whole theological journey — which is why he says, 'God works in the small acts of faithfulness.'
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