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This week I saw two faces
One made me sad, the other glad.
One so sweet and dripping honey
Perfect teeth and smiling roundly.
The other taut in painful agony
Honest struggling with humanity.
Which one made God glad?

Maths was never my strong point. But if (as Christian Research says) the church in the UK is in decline, it must be because there are fewer people born again each year than are leaving. Surely this is not good news for evangelicals, for whom the gospel is the ‘stuff of life’.