Tuesday, November 27, 2012

A founder

1 Corinthians 3:10-23

I wanted to tell about George Hoffman the founder of TearFund but I might be hopelessly wrong and really want to discuss the founder of a completely different charity.
George Hoffman was certainly one of the founders of TearFund and my Google search for him has brought me little information which goes to prove the point that I want to make.

There was a founder, or bigwig of a big national/international Christian charity who was the best friend of our priest, Geoffrey Cox, at Wollaston between 1990 and 1992. They had a pact that the survivor would preach the sermon at the first to die's funeral. The content of the sermon was to be Jesus Christ and him alone. Geoffrey was the survivor.
The founders of the charity had an idea, they implemented it and we see the results. The founder is not elevated to a pedestal. It is all about Jesus. It is about sharing the knowledge of him in our life. It is about sharing his love.

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