John Wesley: “You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore, spend and be spent in the work.”
Spend themselves, they did!
“Of the first 737 members of the Conferences to die [up to 1847], nearly half died before they were thirty years old, [and] two-thirds died before they had been able to render twelve years of service.” Says Robert Coleman, “No insurance company would ever have given them a ‘preferred risk’ policy.” (Coleman, Nothing to Do But to Save Souls)
Interesting that I go to have a conference at work with our insurance providers. They will charge me a little more this year and hand me a page to sign. And I will sign. But what if, after the kind of Christian faithfulness that had become evident in my life this last year, they would say, "Sorry, pal, you are too much - WAY too much - of a risk.
Spend themselves, they did!
“Of the first 737 members of the Conferences to die [up to 1847], nearly half died before they were thirty years old, [and] two-thirds died before they had been able to render twelve years of service.” Says Robert Coleman, “No insurance company would ever have given them a ‘preferred risk’ policy.” (Coleman, Nothing to Do But to Save Souls)
Interesting that I go to have a conference at work with our insurance providers. They will charge me a little more this year and hand me a page to sign. And I will sign. But what if, after the kind of Christian faithfulness that had become evident in my life this last year, they would say, "Sorry, pal, you are too much - WAY too much - of a risk.
One has to wonder how many times we eschew a life of faith for a safer life that qualifies for "preferred risk policies."
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