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How closely do we follow our Master rather than being an embarrassment to him?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gary Clayton introduces us to Beryl \u2013 not the precious stone of Revelation 21:20 or the mineral with the chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6, but an old work colleague, and the question she poses to true believers\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I was a young Christian, before working as Copywriter and Editor at MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship)<\/strong>, the first job I had was at a Christian film distribution company. Every day, people came to pick up films. I met some of the choicest Christians you can imagine \u2013 and some whose understanding of grace (or Scripture) was appalling!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How closely do we follow our Master rather than being an embarrassment to him? Gary Clayton introduces us to Beryl \u2013 not the precious stone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gary-clayton","tag-13-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}