During my university days I...
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During my university days I recall a conversation I had with a fellow student who used to ride the same bus with me. He was a rather cynical fellow whose main ambition seemed to be to get rich and live happily ever after. The conversation got around to what we intended to do after graduation. I mentioned that I was exploring the possibility of studying further at a seminary somewhere with a view to becoming ordained. He looked at me sort of pitifully and then said what a lot of people would say, had they
he intestinal fortitude to say it: "A little religion is all right as long as you do not let it interfere with your life.
How does that statement fall in with what the writer of 2 Corinthians is saying to us today? If we really believe in the revolutionary fact of the Incarnation - God becoming flesh and dwelling among us -then this cannot help but be a focus in our lives. It is quite beyond a question of mere interference. No matter what the hardship, the final outcome turns to victory because Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
- Fairlie
he intestinal fortitude to say it: "A little religion is all right as long as you do not let it interfere with your life.
How does that statement fall in with what the writer of 2 Corinthians is saying to us today? If we really believe in the revolutionary fact of the Incarnation - God becoming flesh and dwelling among us -then this cannot help but be a focus in our lives. It is quite beyond a question of mere interference. No matter what the hardship, the final outcome turns to victory because Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
- Fairlie
