After a suitably bizarre morning sermon on the woman at the well that involved me drinking Strongbow to demonstrate the concept of a refreshing change I headed to Kirkheaton for a meeting about a weekend away I am doing for them in September. They’re an interesting church that experienced spectacular growth in the past only to watch it ebb a bit to be followed as far as I could work out by more sustained growth now. It was a great meeting where we prayed, discussed and ate cake. All bodes well for the summer.
I returned just in time to meet with Youth group to talk about among other things abortion. Clearly they knew about it but as we talked it seemed that they all had the idea that it was the kind of thing that didn’t relate to them personally… they had been taught the theory, but it was irrelevant as it would never happen to them. Maybe that’s why we have one of the highest abortion rates in Europe. Along with everything else we are in denial about the consequences of sex.
We went on to play a great game with a very large football. They were like big kids and seemed to have had a really good time. I wonder when they will be old enough to talk tough about this stuff.
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