My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
'I was at university studying medicine and took a week off to go on a student Bible thing at church.
The passage we studied was Ephesians 2.10-22. It was the first time I had looked at a Bible passage in detail. I enjoyed the study. At the end we had to give a sermon.
As I spoke it came to me how important equality is, and from that, compassion. I just blubbed all the way through it, and I am not a "blubber". I felt as I was talking, that God was making this the cornerstone of my life and work.
That was in 2001. I’m doing some work with people who’ve experienced domestic violence and I think it’s important not to see them as victims, not to label them, but to have compassion, to say, "That could be me. That could be my sister."
I know these verses have made me more compassionate, but because it’s meant that I can relate to people as equals, it means that I can’t walk away from other people’s needs. I think these verses now shape every day of my life. They’re what I always go to in the Bible when I can’t think what else to read.'
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My wife and I were told we’d likely never have children
I was furious. I had just come back from being interviewed by a college
I became very ill when I was 20 years old and was hospitalised
I’m sometimes guilty of thinking I know better than everyone else
I was an executive in a company. A colleague had retired and died very suddenly.
I keep coming back to John 6.67–68
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