Ina sermon preached at All Souls' Langham Place on the second commandment on 21 Apr 1991 (and available on the church website), Rev'd Richard Bewes told the following joke (which he said is a true story):
Decades ago some Protestant missionaries from Manchester were serving on a Pacific island. One day they received a gift from home for their children: a doll with moving eyes. The Roman Catholic missionaries on the island had a statue of the Virgin Mary, which of course had fixed eyes. The islanders saw the doll and were very much more impressed with this amazing new Protestant god! The shocked Protestants explained that this gift was only a toy, not a god. From that time on the Protestant missionaries had great success amongst the islanders. The islanders reasoned, if the play-thing of the Protestants is so much superior to the Roman Catholics’ god, how much greater must the Protestant God be!
I am a Bible believing Christian, husband to Mrs Lloyd, father to four children.
I am the Rector of Warbleton, Bodle Street Green & Dallington and Rural Dean of Dallington, Diocese of Chichester. I also edit the book reviews for The Global Anglican.
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