Gavin Peacock: a Chelsea fan I admire!
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At that time he was still lighting up the Football Focus and Match of the Day 2 sofas but he has since disappeared from our screens. In this well-written article from The Times you get to hear his reasons for leaving a dream job to study and prepare for ministry. Which is clearly his dream.
I loved reading what he had to say, as he pulled no punches: "Are we radically living for Christ or are we living in a lukewarm, plastic kind of Christianity? ... We’re preaching a man-centred, therapeutic gospel now. It’s a make-you-feel-good gospel and it’s a small gospel. I see a lack of respect for the authority of scripture. We need to see who He really is and we need to live in response to that.”
Amen to that.
Here's a great piece of work he did whilst with the BBC: