I completely agree with everything that’s been said, and I’m not adding anything new here either. I just wanted to repeat what Mark Dever said at T4G. He was speaking to a group of pastors, but I think his comment is applicable to all Christians in a local church. He asked, “When was the last time you inconvenienced yourself for another member?” I think he’s spot on. Our comforts can so often be an aid to our laziness and sin. They can wrongly make us think someone else is taking the intuitive.

This is why I love the biblical image of membership being a building (1 Cor. 3.9; 2 Cor. 6.16; Eph. 2:21; 1 Tim. 3:15; 2 Pet. 2.5). As bricks in this building we have to help support and rest on one another. You have to inconvenience yourself because the spiritual well-being of the brick above you depends on it.

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