You may remember the recent shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in Italy. The Concordia captain, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest, accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship before all passengers had been evacuated. He apparently took the ship off its charted course to bring it closer to the island to impress some passengers and crew. That change of course lead to the ship hitting a reef and capsizing off the island of Giglio. This tragedy is made so much more terrible by the fact that it could have been so easily avoided. The Captain claimed that the reef was not on his charts, but it known on all the tourist maps. The information to keep the ship from danger was readily avaible, the course had been properly plotted but it was ignored and tragedy resulted. Paul uses the metaphor of a shipwreck in 1 st Timothy 1:19, “ keeping faith and a good conscien...
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