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A Good Story
September 14, 2025
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I first heard the following story from one of my seminary classmates....
A priest, a minister, and a medium go camping together in farm country. The first morning after pitching their tent next to a river, they realize that they had forgotten to bring milk for their cornflakes. The priest volunteers to cross the river, hike to a nearby farm and get the milk. The minister and medium watch as the priest walks across the surface of the river, trods on up to the farm, and on his way back, they see the priest again walking across the surface of the river with a bottle of milk held like a trophy over his head.
The second morning, the medium volunteers to get the milk, and this time, the priest and the minister watch as the medium walks across the surface of the water both going and coming.
The third morning, the minister reasons to himself, that if the priest and the medium can walk on water, then his faith will carry him also. So he volunteers to fetch the milk. The priest and medium watch as the minister approaches the bank of the river, and splash! The minister is up to his neck in icy water. At this point the priest turns to the medium and says, “Do you think we should have told him about the stepping stones?”
To which the medium replies, “What stepping stones?”
Is this a good story?
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