A Puzzling Answer to a Question
A man once asked the great preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon if any one had been "saved" at a meeting he had once preached at. "Yes, there was," replied Mr Spurgeon, "there were two-and-a-half people saved." The man was puzzled for a moment, but then he said, "Oh yes, I see; you mean there were two adults and one child saved?" "Oh no," said Mr Spurgeon, "I mean there were two children and one adult saved.
You see, boys and girls, the adult - the grown-up person - who was saved at that meeting, had only half of his life to live for Jesus; he had already lived half of his life - that's what Mr Spurgeon meant. But the children who were saved had their whole lives before them and could live their whole lives for Christ. So Mr Spurgeon was right, was he not when he said that the two-and-a-half people that were saved at his meeting were not two adults and one child, but two children and one adult.