Get off the Fence!
Illustration★★★★When the great chemist Faraday was a boy, he climbed a fence one day and put his hands and head through, just beneath the top rail. Then he began to speculate. “On which side of the fence am I? My hands and head are on one side, but my body and my heart are on the other.” Just then someone came along and opened the gate, pinning him painfully between the gate and the post. He concluded it was better to be completely on one side or the other.
Norman G. Wilson, Follow the Leader, 306.
The point
Young Faraday, with arms on one side of a fence and body on the other, gets pinned by a gate, learning that complete commitment is better than straddling.
Scripture
Joshua 24:15
Audience
Adults
Tone
Instructive · Cautionary
To tell aloud
under a minute · 102 words
Subjects