God Calls a Remnant

God Calls a Remnant
ROMANS 9.25-29

The Beatles once recorded a song called ‘Nowhere Man’. It grew out of a casual, dismissive remark one of them had made about somebody they’d just met: ‘He’s a real “nowhere man”.’ It was meant as a scornful put-down, and if the person they were referring to had ever heard it, it would have hurt. Imagine calling someone ‘Mr Nobody’, or ‘Little Miss Nobody-Loves-Me’. It’s the sort of thing children might say to each other in a malicious mood. Give someone a label which writes them off, and watch them squirm...