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TRUST ME, TRUST ME — Said the Serpent to Eve
What do you do when the person inside your garden cannot be trusted?
By Commissioner William Epps
Opening Reflection
What do you do when the person inside your garden cannot be trusted?
About the Book
Detailed description of TRUST ME, TRUST ME — Said the Serpent to Eve will appear here. This section will explore the book’s central themes, scriptural foundations, and the unique lens Commissioner Epps brings to questions of trust, discernment, and spiritual authority.
Readers will learn how to:
- Recognize the difference between a mistake, weakness, selfishness, manipulation, and deliberate harm
- Identify patterns that apologies and explanations can hide
- Separate forgiveness from trust, reconciliation, and restored access
- Use The Four Gates to decide who deserves Public, Practical, Personal, or Sacred Access to your life
- Apply the TRUST Test to determine whether someone is truly becoming trustworthy again
- Work, live, worship, co-parent, and share family space with people you do not fully trust
- Stop making your peace dependent on another person’s confession
- Establish boundaries without using them as revenge
- Recognize when discernment has crossed into fear or paranoia
- Rebuild trust in yourself and eventually learn to trust others again
- Protect your integrity so another person’s deception does not change who you become
This is not a book about becoming suspicious of everyone.
It is about becoming wiser.
It is about recognizing that forgiveness does not require foolishness, love does not require unlimited access, and Christian character does not require pretending unsafe people are safe.
From Commissioner William Epps, author of The Spirit of Saul: Surviving the Boss Who Wants to See You Fall and Ten Seconds From Safety, comes a powerful Christian guide for anyone who has ever been lied to, betrayed, manipulated, or left wondering whether they can ever trust again.
You can love without being naive.
You can forgive without reopening every gate.
You can recognize the serpent without becoming one.
The goal is not to make you harder.
It is to make you wiser without making you darker.
Guard the garden.
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