Gordon Cheng continues to provide a transcription of a DVD conversation between John Chapman and Kel Richards.
I linked to part one a couple of days ago. You can read the whole piece here.
In part two they consider the best thing about the Christian life.
Kel: And what is the best thing about the Christian life?
John: Ah brother, it’s all good. It’s all good. I remember hearing a bloke telling us about becoming a Christian, he was asked that question; he said, the whole box and dice!
See what could be better than to know your sins are forgiven? What could be better to know that you’re friends with God?
When I was a boy my father hardly ever called me by my Christian name. The only time he ever called me John was when I was in deep trouble. And I always went to ground when he called ‘John’. He called me Ned and I would call him George, neither of which were our names, but they were intimate names of affection—Kel: Friendship names
John: Yes. And it just said ‘I love you’. I care about you.
And I can’t think of anything better than to be able to call God Father. Paul says when we cry ‘Abba Father’, it is the Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And to have God as a loving, caring Father—I know that some people have had fathers who aren’t—but ‘Father’ is a big word, it’s not a little word, it means more than ‘my father’, and to have God as Father, oh man, that is really something.
