Amongst the boys, such things are fair game. It’s just intellectual chess, trading line for line. Perhaps the internet isn’t the best arena for our banter though at times.

I unreservedly recant with my sincerest apologies.

And I was right. I am slightly scared.

However much you like to joke here is a kindly word of advice from someone who doesn’t struggle majorly with self-image issues but is still very human.

Never Under Any Circumstances Whoever the Girl is Make Any Remark Whatsoever about Appearances. Not in even in Jest. The word Ugly Does Not Come into Play Ever, the Word Beautiful Should Never Be Abused.

Recant. Or I’m never having lunch with you again.

Ugly words do NOT suffice where beautiful ones can be used.

Goodness, where is your artistry and your very normal human appreciation of things wondrous!

ps. Geoff is manly, clearly much more than you.

My girlfriend is strikingly beautiful, and any insistence to the contrary is simply delusional.

Back-pedalling a bit… I wasn’t saying that I don’t relate to the words in How Great Thou Art. I like the words. I really like the song. They’re just not the way I would express the same thing.

And in terms of the Third Day song, I agree with you… if John and Jane Pewsitter don’t understand what they’re singing about, then maybe the mega-musicians up the front need to start thinking about leading worship rather than performing their favourite tunes. The interesting twist there, is that your musicians will most likely relate to the song in the first instance, such that it might take them a while to catch on to your point.