Community is also clutch. I heard a friend say, “Even Jesus didn’t carry his cross on his own,” referring to the fact that Simon helped him, but also to the fact that our burdens, our little crosses, our hard days, get a little more bearable when others are walking alongside us.

It is only in a church that we are members of Christ and of one another, moving forward together like a well-coordinated body (1 Cor. 12:12–27). It is together that we suffer and thrive. It is together that we worship and grow and serve, according to the Word of God. That’s what your church is—ground zero for the new kind of community Christ is

He will be taking wobbly steps of faith; not alone, but side-by-side with another member of the Twelve as they were sent out in twos.