Paul's Companions Are on Their Way

Paul’s Companions Are on Their Way
2 CORINTHIANS 8.16-24

The smart white van pulled up outside the college one afternoon, and two men got out. Three or four students were in the common room, watching television. The men, wearing white coats like technicians, walked into the college and went into the common room. They went over to the large television.

‘Sorry,’ they said to the students. ‘Needs replacing. Something not quite right.’

And with that they unplugged the television, picked it up, and walked out to the van.

The students shrugged, and accepted it as a fact of life. It was some while before they realized that something was indeed not quite right – but not with the television. The men were simply thieves, of a particularly bold variety...