with their lies. They are empty, vacuous people who desperately need genuine, biblical compassion. Ponder yet another scenario. Consider defeated, disillusioned, disheartened persons who throughout life ran from problems. They ran from jobs, from marriages, from churches. Whenever things became at all difficult, they ran. But now, there is no place left to which to run. Their backs are against the wall; there is no escape, they can run no longer—they have been caught! Now, they are out of breath