And though of course many Christians would get the Narnia reference, isn't it just a bit, well, odd? The potential for mystification here is huge, particularly if it's in an email sent to, say, a gas company. Being guilted out by an email sign-off is something we don't need. We are just saved, and service is a free response to God's grace. There's a certain theological difficulty with this one, in that it's wrong. That might be the exhortee's problem rather than the exhorter, of course. The trouble with all exhortations is that sometimes you don't feel like being exhorted. Either way, it's sort of comforting.Īn earnest exhortation, this one, and biblical too. Or it might put you in mind of Bear Grylls holding someone by the collar as they dangle over a precipice. There's something pleasingly manly about this, smacking of a firm handshake. And not a bit cheesy.Ĭhristian Today has identified 10 of the best. Christians, always eager to bless the world, have been relentlessly creative in developing new sign-offs which are both fit for the digital age and spiritual too. Remember how the difference between 'Yours sincerely' and 'Yours faithfully' was drilled into you at school? The trouble is that emails and social media mean that conventions like that look as dated as 'Your obedient servant'.īut fear not.
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