BUILDING TRUST
A preacher was trying to convince a rancher that he needed to make a personal, radical conversion. After giving the enthusiastic young minister a fair hearing, the rancher replied, “Sounds like you’re talking about gentling horses. I have several big strong hired hands to break wild horses for me. But do you know what? My daughter had fed one of the wildest Mustangs I ever saw, and she so gentled him by her touch that the day came he let her ride him without being broke. You tell me the correct way to gentle a horse.” Two of the most prominent apostles illustrate the same truth. Paul had a sudden, radical, life-wrenching conversion on the road to Damascus. Peter, however, was gradually nudged and nurtured in his faith, and still was making adjustments up through Acts. 10.
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