Turn The Page

In James Cameron’s film Titanic, Bruce Ismay, the Managing Director of the White Star Line declares, ‘This ship can’t sink!’ With a line that sends shivers down the spine the ship’s architect replies, ‘She’s made of iron Sir, I assure you she can’.  I’m reminded of this episode as yet another luminary of the Christian world turns out not be as perfect as we had hoped. For decades Philip Yancy inspired millions of Christians around the world. His book What’s so amazing about grace? sold 15 million copies. But then suddenly came his recent confession. An eight-year affair with a married woman. Pain, hurt, and disillusionment have followed. But like Titanic there is no such thing as a perfect, unsinkable human being. Titanic was made of iron, and humans have a corrupt heart, an accident waiting to happen. The prophet Jeremiah once declared, ‘The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure’. If someone like Yancy can be deceived by his heart, then all of us should beware. Ismay was so confident