Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight #America250 #Nation250
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The episode discusses the historical significance of the Mayflower Compact and the Pilgrims' covenant before landing in America.
Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." — Psalm 107:1 THE STORY November 11, 1620. The Mayflower sat anchored in the cold waters off Cape Cod, and nothing was going according to plan. The Pilgrims had intended to settle in Virginia, under the jurisdiction of an existing charter. But storms and navigational error had brought them far north of their destination, into territory where no legal framework existed to govern them. Some among the passengers, the strangers as the Pilgrims called those who were not part of their congregation, began to talk openly about going their own way once they landed. No charter, no authority. Every man for himself. What happened next was extraordinary. Before a single person stepped off that ship, the Pilgrim leaders gathered the company together and produced a document. It was brief, barely two hundred words, but it changed everything. They covenanted together in the name of God to form a civil body politic for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith. They would act as one people under one God. Forty-one men signed it. They called it the…
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