Gaining the Messiah

Gaining the Messiah
Philippians 3.7-11

A story is told of the great nineteenth-century Anglican pastor, poet and theologian John Keble. As a young don in Oxford in the early years of the century, he held at one stage the office of college bursar. Few clergy then, or now for that matter, were trained in the art of balancing columns of figures; and in one particular year Keble’s accounts were stubbornly out of balance by nearly two thousand pounds. Eventually the mystery was solved. Having written the date at the top of the page, he had added the number of the year – it must have been somewhere near 1820 – into one of the columns of figures...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright