“I stand by the door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out. The door is the most important door in the world - it is the door through which men walk when they find God. There is no use my going way inside and staying there, when so many are still outside and they, as much as I, crave to know where the door is. And all that so many ever find is only the wall where the door ought to be. They creep along the wall like blind men ....” Sam Shoemaker (1893–1963), an Episcopal priest who was instrumental in founding the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, shares in this short piece of prose the passion that ought to mark every follower of Christ, a passion to see the lost found and enfolded into the body of Christ.
by Sam Shoemaker