Book Review: The Missionary Fellowship of William Carey by Michael A.G. Haykin

One of the most common accusations from non-Calvinists is that Calvinists are against missions. Granted we have people are called Calvinists who are have been called Hyper-Calvinists, but Jesus does give the command to preach the gospel to all peoples. The book of Acts shows us that the church was on a mission to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth.

One of person in church history who had a heart from missions, who was also a Calvinist, was William Carey. Carey was the founder of the modern missions movement and has been the inspiration for many missionaries ever since. He is also known for not doing missions alone. He had a fellowship that was dear to him and assisted him in his missionary work. Michael A.G. Haykin has written about Carey and this fellowship in the newest book in the "Long Line of Godly Men" series, which is titled, The Missionary Fellowship of William Carey.

This book begins with a look at Carey's life and all what was happening during that time in the life of the church. The rest of the book deals with Carey's rise in the work of missions and the friends that came along side him as he was beginning the work God had called him to do. Haykin does an excellent job in communicating to the reader Carey's passion for missions and how show that missions is not the work of one man. It needs to be a corporate thing. One thing that Haykin shows is that Carey puts to rest the Calvinists, especially Reformed Baptists, are not anti-missions.

This is the fourth book in the "Long Line of Godly Men" books that I have read and have enjoyed them immensely. I am delight to recommend Haykin's biography of Carey to this list of growing books.

Thanks Reformation Trust for letting me review this book.