John Newton's Amazing Journey - Anglican (Romans 8:28)

John Newton spent years as a slave trader—a profession he later called "a business at which my heart now shudders." After his conversion, those terrible memories became the raw material for empathy, for advocacy, and for "Amazing Grace." His sin wasn't good; what God made of it was. Newton spent his later years fighting slavery, mentored by his own guilt transformed into activism. Romans 8:28 doesn't excuse the past; it redeems it. The worst chapters of our story can become testimony to grace. Newton's wretchedness became saving song.