THE SCARS
OF
DISCIPLESHIP

"Oh my friends, how far are you prepared to obey the Lord Jesus Christ? How absolute is His lordship over you?

My dear unscarred friends, you who have managed to avoid the cross and evade the clear pathway of obedience; you who are tucked away somewhere in a cushy job, while the will of God is that you should spend and be spent elsewhere. I want to tell you that there is a day coming when, beneath the lustre of the eternal throne of God and the glare of His all-seeing eye, you will give anything for a scar". – Glyn Owen.


I have been beaten times without number.
I have faced death again and again.
I have been beaten the regulation thirty-nine stripes.
I have been beaten with rods thrice.
I have been stoned once.
I have been shipwrecked three times.
I have been twenty-four hours in the open sea.
Paul to the Corinthians – J.B. Philips


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