The Wanderer

"As I walked through the wilderness of this world . . ."

“Must you?”

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One hundred years after Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount, a man approached the great church father Tertullian with a problem — his business interests and Christianity conflicted. He ended by asking, ‘What can I do? I must live!’ Tertullian replied, ‘Must you?’

R. Kent Hughes, The Sermon on the Mount, page 74.

HT: Ray Ortlund.

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Written by Jeremy Walker

Monday 30 March 2009 at 15:03

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