We need encouragement, support and the love of others to help us go through difficult times. We are never so spiritual that we do not need the help God provides through other people. “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up but pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10).
Paul teaches us that believers belong to a body (see Ephesians 4). Not a single one of us can be a “Lone Ranger”. We are a united body: one church under one Head. We are interdependent members of one another, not independent entities who don’t need each other and aren’t affected by each other.
We are called to a new way of life, the way of maturity and purity, and to relationships that give evidence of God’s power and grace at work in our lives. “Then you will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming" (Ephesians 4:14).
We are called to a new way of life, the way of maturity and purity, and to relationships that give evidence of God’s power and grace at work in our lives.
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