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Here’s the coffee-break conversation.
“I see someone else reckons they’ve had their phone tapped.”
“Yes, it seems like every C-List celebrity is on some tabloid’s hacking list! Do you think privacy is important?”
“Well, of course. We have a right to privacy, to be able to have things other people can’t pry into.”
“Yes, good point. There are quite a lot of things about me I wouldn’t want my nearest and dearest knowing, let alone splashed across some national newspaper. Though ultimately we can’t really keep anything at all private, can we?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, God knows everything about us. We can’t keep things private from him. He even knows the secrets of our hearts. And Jesus said that one day they will be made known for everyone see (Luke 12 v 2-3). I find that quite a sobering thought, really. Don't you?”
And (hopefully!) we’re off…
Carl is Editorial Director at The Good Book Company and is a member of Grace Church Worcester Park, London. He is the best-selling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as series editor of the God's Word for You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.
Thomas Seidler
Man in Pub: My round, what d'you all want...?
1st Friend: Pint of guiness please...
2nd Friend: Glass of red wine please...
The Christian: ...red, red... reminds me of my Saviour's blood -- how he died on the cross to save us from our sins.
* tumbleweed blows across stage in deathly silence that follows *
Were they looking for that conversation, did it flow naturally out of subject? We are commanded to make the most of every opportunity, Paul asks for prayer that the door may be opened, not that he may have the strength to barge it open, and wedge his foot in the door so they can't close it... I can see a potentially severely awkward moment! ;)
All good fun...
May God open doors for us, and grant us gentleness!