A friend, who was a university lecturer in mathematics, told me this story . . .
Two students were sitting their final exams in maths. One young man was brilliant and the other was average. Not long into the exam the average student looked up and realised that he could see over the whizz-kid's shoulder and he started to craftily copy his answers. All was going well until they came to a question about which the brilliant young man scratched his head for a long time.
Eventually he wrote on his paper: 'I have read question 5, and I do not think the question makes sense.' The average student thought he had better use slightly different wording. But unfortunately what he chose to write was this: 'I do not think question 5 makes sense either.' And with that one word, he had blown it completely! His cheating was obvious. He was in deep trouble.
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