Yet Hamer did not embrace the cross uncritically. She was aware of its dangers. “We have always been taught,” she said, “that we had to suffer as Christ suffered. He was killed and all of his followers were persecuted. But I think in terms of what David had to do. David was a shepherd boy. He was giving service to his people. But it came a time in his life when he had to slay Goliath.”[56]
