April 9 Geoffrey Thomas 3

... I did not know ... how powerful would be the residue of remaining sin, how challenging it would be to prepare two or three sermons each week ... how hard it would be to maintain the disciplines of personal devotions each day, how tough it would be to deal with the disappointments, how great the follies and stumbling blocks that the independence of the ministry and the freedoms of the pastorate would provide. ... The work of grace is in fledgling form in the best of us.

Geoffrey Thomas