chosen Jesus Christ, he answered that what had “tipped the scales” in his spiritual journey were the actions of a classmate who happened to be a Christian. During the previous term the pre-med student had been very ill with the flu and, as a result, had missed ten days of school. “Without any fanfare or complaints,” his Christian classmate carefully collected all his class assignments and took time away from his own studies to help him catch up. The pre-med student told Palmer, “You know, this kind