Divided Loyalties

Divided Loyalties
1 Corinthians 7.32-40

He came to see me both excited and distressed. He was one of the brightest students I had ever taught at that time; but he was also passionately involved in the plight of some of the poorest people in the world. Most of his fellow students were doing their academic work for between five and eight hours a day, and whiling away the rest of their time in music, sport and a rich variety of student social life. But he was squeezing his work – the work he’d come to university to do – into two or three hours a day, and then spending every other waking moment working, campaigning, writing letters, raising money, doing everything he could to help the people whose plight had touched his heart. And of course his academic performance was going downhill fast...

Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright