In the pub today a friend related how he went to a couple of churches before he got married in order to fulfil the criteria to get married in a church building. One he said was fire and brimstone, the other more positive. He asked me which I would indentify with. I was able to steal a comment from John Stott in a sermon on Ephesians he preached in 1971.
I said I was deeply pessimistic about humanity, but very optimistic about the power and love of God. He liked that.... thank you John Stott.
Great story. Good old John Stott.
ReplyDeleteHe is a wise man. If the thought-through good sense of his little finger I would be a happy man.
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