Opening the door of Faith

Opening the Door of Faith
Acts 14.21-28

I stood at the back of the exhibition, and chatted with the artist. He was a local man, and we were glad to support him. We had even bought one of his paintings, a marvellous study of a bird in flight.

‘What does it feel like,’ I asked, ‘seeing people buy these paintings which you’ve taken such a long time over, and watching them take them away knowing you’ll probably never see them again?’

‘Very strange,’ he replied. ‘It’s like sending children off to college, only worse. You don’t know what company they’ll get into. You don’t know whether people will look after them. With paintings, you don’t know whether they will hang them somewhere special, or just shove them in an attic and forget them.’...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 2 by Tom Wright