There’s a story told about a man during the war who was shot and lay dying in the trenches. A friend learned over to him and asked, ‘Is there anyone I can send a message to for you?’ The dying soldier mustered his remaining strength and said, ‘Yes, you can send a message to this man at this address. Tell him that in my last minutes what he taught me as a child is helping me to die.’ – The man was his old Sunday school teacher. – When the message got back to him he said, ‘God forgive me. I gave up on Sunday school teaching years ago because I thought I was getting nowhere. I thought it was no use.

Nicky Gumbel, Alpha Questions of Life, 2007 edition, Eastbourne: Kingsway Communications, p.185

There’s a story told about a man during the war who was shot and lay dying in the trenches. A friend learned over to him and asked, ‘Is there anyone I can send a message to for you?’ The dying soldier mustered his remaining strength and said, ‘Yes, you can send a message to this man at this address. Tell him that in my last minutes what he taught me as a child is helping me to die.’ – The man was his old Sunday school teacher. – When the message got back to him he said, ‘God forgive me. I gave up on Sunday school teaching years ago because I thought I was getting nowhere. I thought it was no use.

Nicky Gumbel, Alpha Questions of Life, 2007 edition, Eastbourne: Kingsway Communications, p.185