been drawn to this topic in a variety of other ways. In October 1987, at the annual Global Ministries Institute at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, our speaker was Dr Josef Tson, a Romanian pastor who had been arrested and imprisoned in 1974 and 1977, then exiled in 1981. He forcefully expressed his preference to be introduced simply as ‘a slave of Jesus Christ’. ‘There aren’t many people’, he observed, ‘who are willing to introduce me as a slave. They substitute the word “servant” for “slave”.