Early into my ministry I found myself at a local supermarket store. I reached the checkout counter with a bottle of wine and offered it up to a young man at the till. He smirked, and said, ‘I didn’t think vicars were allowed to drink.’ I didn’t mind him saying this although I noticed a few customers adjacent to me scowling; perhaps they thought his words were a little familiar. Later on in the week I was stopped by one of those customers at Church who expressed just that. 

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