#TOAM11 FRIEND TO FRIENDS

As my friend Liam Thatcher wittily expressed it, we are now hoam from toam.

I have my friend Mpi Ndebele from Bulawayo with me, and took him to the pub to meet my heathen friends. The juxtaposition was stark - from being in the crowd of thousands at Brighton, of whom I personally know (to some degree) hundreds of people, and all of us joined in celebrating Jesus, to being back at the end of the bar in the Bermuda Triangle with my Christ-denying buddies, trying to explain something of what I have experienced this week.

Money talks, so I told thoam that we had given away £925,147 at toam. That is pretty fuse blowing to the average man standing at the bar.

What a privilege to have friends. But - oh - for the day when my heathen buddies are Christ-denying no more.

"What a friend I've found, closer than a brother..." Thank you Jesus, for your friendship.