The Moravians Who Took Him at His Word

In 1732, two young men from a tiny Christian community in Herrnhut, Germany, did something the established church considered insane. Johann Leonhard Dober and David Nitschmann sold themselves into slavery in the Danish West Indies so they could share the gospel with enslaved Africans whom no missionary could otherwise reach. As the ship pulled away from Copenhagen's harbor, Dober reportedly called back to weeping friends on the dock: "May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering."…