Tip-Off #20 - Only Connect
“That was the whole of her sermon.” (Margaret, in Howard's End)
One Sunday, when my son was six, sitting in the front row at church, I was preaching about prayer. Midway through the sermon I declared, “We don't pray as we should!”
He then jumped up indignantly, “But Daddy, I try!”
“We” is co-optive. It says you are included in what I'm talking about. If it's President Biden saying of the U.S. “We won't give in, we don…
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