The biblical scholar Don Carson tells a story of a time, quite a few years ago, when he had two older theologians give some talks at his theological college. These older theologians were Carl F. H. Henry and Kenneth Kantzer, both in their 80s at the time. During the question time, Carson noted that (in his words) “a lot of Christian scholars and senior pastors in their old age become grumpy” and end up damaging the work they have built through defensiveness and crankiness. But, Carson went on, both these older theologians were humble after years of service of the Lord, not having become grumpy or arrogant, having avoided the defensiveness and jealousy that many fall into later in life. Carson then asked, “How have you avoided the traps?” I will quote him on what happened next:

[B]oth of them fumbled a bit, didn’t know what to say, looked embarrassed. And then finally Carl said very quietly, ‘How can anybody be arrogant if he stands beside the cross?’

At St Peter’s of the Rock, as we approach Easter, we are spending quite a few Sundays standing beside the cross, so to speak. We are following through Luke’s story, in his Gospel, and have reached his account of the last day or so leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion. It is unspeakably holy ground. It is both a wonderful place to stand and and awe-full place to stand. We are praying God will use our time there to humble us, taking our eyes off ourselves and fixing them firmly on the wonder of what happened there, just under 2000 years ago. And that through this, we will be changed in all sorts of ways.

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