The One Thing Needful
Posted on June 15, 2020
Filed under COVID19, Evangelism
“Whenever the four horsemen have been riding – pestilence, sword, famine, and death – they should lead finite creatures like us to ponder the shortness of our earthly stay.
Threats of dislocation and death do not change the human condition; they merely run a highlighter through it.
As Dr Johnson famously commented: ‘Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.’ At least it ought to. …”
– Dr Peter Barnes, Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, draws us back to what is most important.
(Photo: Dr. Barnes at a Banner of Truth conference.)