Today I saw the trailer for Amazing Grace. This movie, which hits theaters on 2/23/2007, tells the story of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), a Christian Statesman who fought to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. Albert Finney stars along side Gruffudd as John Newton, the ex-slave trader turned minister and Wilberforce’s spiritual counselor. Newton is most famous for writing the hymn “Faith’s Review and Expectation,” which is more commonly known as “Amazing Grace.”
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” – Ephesians 2:4-9
