FACTS ABOUT PATRICK:
1. Patrick was not Irish. He was born in Briton and taken to Ireland as a slave. He later escaped, returned to Briton and went back to Ireland as a missionary.
2. Patrick was not a Roman Catholic. He was part of the ancient British church.
3. Patrick preached the Gospel to and baptized thousands.
4. Patrick and his followers started hundreds of churches.
5. After Patrick, pagan Ireland became known as the "Isle of Saints."
6. As a result of Patrick's work, Ireland became a great Christian nation and sent out missionaries to evangelize Europe.
7. For 700 years after Patrick, the Irish church was free from Roman or British control.
PATRICK ON WORLD MISSIONS:
"Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven."
PATRICK ON JESUS CHRIST:
"For there is no other God, nor ever was before, nor shall be hereafter, but God the Father, unbegotten and without beginning, in whom all things began, whose are all things, as we have been taught; and his son Jesus Christ, who manifestly always existed with the Father, before the beginning of time in the spirit with the Father, indescribably begotten before all things, and all things visible and invisible were made by him. He was made man, conquered death and was received into Heaven, to the Father who gave him all power over every name in Heaven and on Earth and in Hell, so that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and God, in whom we believe."
PATRICK ON GOD'S MERCY:
"I am, then, first of all, countryfied, an exile, evidently unlearned, one who is not able to see into the future, but I know for certain, that before I was humbled I was like a stone lying in deep mire, and he that is mighty came and in his mercy raised me up and, indeed, lifted me high up and placed me on top of the wall. And from there I ought to shout out in gratitude to the Lord for his great favours in this world and for ever, that the mind of man cannot measure."
ONE MAN CAN CHANGE HIS COUNTRY. ONE MAN CAN TOUCH THE WORLD.
“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” Ezekiel 22:30