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Matthew 13.44-53
I went last week to the final concert in a great music festival. The hall (a cathedral, actually) was packed to overflowing. It was a fine summer evening, and everyone had come determined to enjoy themselves.
The two main pieces of music that were played were both beautiful, wonderfully performed, and rapturously received. But it’s safe to say that if the advertisement had only mentioned the first of them, not many people would have come. The first piece was a little-known concerto by a little-known composer; the second was a well-known and popular symphony by a famous composer. But the festival organizers had done their work well. They knew that the well-known work would bring the crowds in, and that, once they were there, the same people would be delighted to discover the little-known work, a piece of real passion and power...
Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright
Matthew 13.44-53
I went last week to the final concert in a great music festival. The hall (a cathedral, actually) was packed to overflowing. It was a fine summer evening, and everyone had come determined to enjoy themselves.
The two main pieces of music that were played were both beautiful, wonderfully performed, and rapturously received. But it’s safe to say that if the advertisement had only mentioned the first of them, not many people would have come. The first piece was a little-known concerto by a little-known composer; the second was a well-known and popular symphony by a famous composer. But the festival organizers had done their work well. They knew that the well-known work would bring the crowds in, and that, once they were there, the same people would be delighted to discover the little-known work, a piece of real passion and power...
Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright
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