The Count Who Offered Land and Received a Legacy

In 1722, a twenty-one-year-old German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf made what seemed like a modest gesture. A band of persecuted Moravian Christians needed somewhere to live, and Zinzendorf had land on his estate in Saxony. He gave them a corner of it, expecting nothing more than to be a good neighbor. He had no idea what God was building.…