No Christian is an only child.

So the question is not “Am I going to be part of a community of faith?” but “How am I going to live in this community of faith?”

Spiritually immature people are ordinarily so full of their own needs and wants, that they look at a brother and sister not as an ally but as competition.

Christians are a community of people who are visibly together at worship but who remain in relationship through the week in witness and service.

Oil, throughout scripture, is a sign of God’s presence, a symbol of the Spirit of God.