Now we move to the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, and from the reading we select the text: "For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." We shall come into new life by his life. That means a different life, a new way of seeing things, "an altered state of consciousness." Let me give it to you in the terms of one man’s experience. He was an exceptionally fine plumber - so good that he was employed in a nuclear installation. He hadn’t been much of a churchman for the four years I had been his pastor. Therefore, I was surprised when he called and wanted to meet me in my study. Something had happened to him; I could see it in his face. He told me an interesting story.

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