Before they knew what had happened, the stones were flying; they had no place to run, nowhere to hide. Many years later Paul still remembered the events in Iconium and Lystra and shared a peculiar testimony. He said, “You, however, know all about…what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them” (2 Tim. 3:10–11). Any person in his or her right mind would prefer to be rescued before the first stone is thrown, not