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‘It is inexcusable in a Christian to neglect history’. So said the founder of the Christian Medical Fellowship, Dr Douglas Johnson (DJ). The more I have read about DJ, the more I have connected with his own obvious passion to remember the inspiring people and remarkable events that have shaped who we are today.
There is a huge amount of overlap between contemporary challenges and those faced by our forebears in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They may have looked and sounded different to us, and lived in very different cultural or technological situations to those we now face, but I have been forcibly struck by just how applicable their situations and dilemmas are to us even to this day.
As was rightly said 3,000 years ago, in many ways there really is ‘nothing new under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes 1:9). As we celebrate God’s faithfulness to us in CMF’s 75th anniversary, let’s be inspired and encouraged by those who have gone before us. We hope you find these stories inspirational in your own walk with God and your own Christian ministry.
