![]() I hope you feel that it is a wonderful thing to be like a tree, not like “a reed shaken by the wind” (Luke 7:24). But many of you will live three, four, five, six, seven more decades. ![]() You won’t live five thousand years on earth. “Be like a tree: old, gnarly, battered winter after winter, storm after storm - and still standing.”ĭid you know that the Fortingall Yew tree in Scotland may be five thousand years old - the oldest living thing in Britain? It’s still standing after millennia. Would it not be glorious to say that when you turn eighty-six? How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?” For some of you, that would be sixty years from now. To stand like Polycarp on the day of his martyrdom in AD 155 and say, “For eighty-six years I have been his servant, and he has done me no wrong. It is a wonderful thing to remain a Christian for seventy years - and more. If it lay in my power, I would spare you this trendy tragedy. My guess is that the new word deconversion came into existence so that the old, foolish, tragic, heart-breaking reality could feel as trendy as the word.
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