Dr. Peter Barnes tells about a radio preacher that he listened to while he was in college named the Rev. Apostle J.R. Chambers, Jr. Quite surprisingly for a radio preacher, Chambers had a decided speech impediment. Each week he recited the verse from the Bible on which his entire ministry was based. It was Matthew 5:48, “You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Because of his impediment each week the verse came out like this: “Yyyyou must . . . You mmmmust be . . . You must bbbe . . . You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. See there,” he would say, “proof positive from the Bible!” It always amused Barnes that someone who talked so much about Christian perfection talked about it in such an imperfect fashion! (1)

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