A man of rare wisdom

Michael Haykin  |  Features  |  history
Date posted:  1 Feb 2023
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A man of rare wisdom

Richard Greenham used to rise at 4am to pray

Although Richard Greenham of Dry Drayton, whom we met last month, was well known and appreciated as a gospel preacher, it was as a pastoral counsellor that Greenham excelled.

His 20th-century biographer John Primus has argued persuasively that in this area Greenham was ‘an ecclesiastical titan who used his extraordinary gifts to make enormous contributions to God’s church and kingdom’.

For Greenham to fulfill his ministry as a preacher meant pastoral visitation.

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