God will kick down a door for us

This article that I wrote earlier in the year appeared in the latest edition of St Paul’s Ealing church magazine published recently: There’s a song we sing at church and every time I hear the first few bars of it, I wince a little. It’s called Reckless Love and, like many modern church songs, it’s heavy on emotion and light on Biblical exposition, so for an old traditionalist such as myself, I find myself mumbling the words. In particular, there’s a line in this song where it talks about God being prepared to kick down a wall for us, such…