It was during his time at Lock Chapel that Newton sent a young, spiritually confused man to hear Scott. The man wasn’t unlike the young Thomas Scott—brilliant, ambitious, and spiritually confused. Newton was discipling him, but knew he needed to sit under the ministry of a truly gifted preacher. And it was under Scott’s weekly gospel preaching that young William Wilberforce would be established in the faith that eventually led him to take on the evil of slavery.
