bill turner

ok, so several weeks ago, i blogged enthusiastically about a rousing sermon by a substitute preacher....a retired paster that moved up this way from texas to help found a moderate baptist seminary in lexington.......he covered the history of the baptists, from the reformation to present day.......and went to great lengths to convince all present that the separation of church and state preserves our religious freedom and is a very good thing that the founding fathers put into law..........despite the temptation to foster more church involvement in government .........i was heartened to find that our family is not alone in this belief.....and i did mean to write a short note thanking him for his confirming words.....but i never quite got around to it......and so today it seemed to be fate that i found myself standing in back of him and his wife after the benediction.....in the long line of folks welcoming the new members......3 separate families joined today....they almost fell over each other coming forward during the last hymn......dr. turner seemed grateful that we had got the message,......as there were others who thought he had said the opposite.......no idea how they could have been so mistaken......but people do hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.........(quoting simon and garfunkel,......but i digress......).....we also had a good laugh about how they hyphenated their names after they got married.....and then decided to go back to their original names to make it all simpler.......a pleasant interlude......