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Who hasn't, at one time or another, fallen flat on one's face? Some people seem more prone to fall than others, more prone to failure.

I recall one baby Christian (a grown man, but a baby Christian) who, if I believed in reincarnation, I would have said was the apostle Peter back again -- hot-tempered, big-hearted, impulsive. The older Christians were waiting for this man to fall. And it wasn't long before he obliged them.

He said later that the greatest stumbling block in the beginning of his Christian life was not his old drinking buddies, but skeptical Christians waiting for him to fall flat on his face so they could say, 'I told you so!'
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~ Ruth Bell Graham, "Legacy of a Pack Rat"

Instead, let us find ways to help prevent these Christian friends from falling back. Let us be to them like Barnabas was to Paul.