Wicket Gate · The Field's Edge
The Story of the Gate
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian flees the City of Destruction with a burden on his back and no clear road ahead. Evangelist points him to a distant Wicket Gate, a narrow door set apart on the horizon. Christian runs toward it, knocks, and the keeper, a man named Goodwill, opens it and pulls him safely through onto the narrow way that leads home.
“Keep that light in thine eye, and run to the wicket-gate.”
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
Charles Spurgeon loved this picture so much that he wrote an evangelistic booklet titled Around the Wicket Gate, and he taught that grace itself stands at the threshold.
“The cross should be right in front of the wicket-gate.”
Charles Spurgeon
Inscribed over the gate
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14
The Field's Edge cultivates home for neighbors coming off the street. The Wicket Gate is our picture of that welcome: the narrow door into home and a new life, where someone is waiting to open it and pull a weary traveler safely through.
This board keeps that gate. The portal you are reading carries the picture the ministry lives out every day.