In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a definite task to perform for the community, that he may know in hours of doubt that he, too, is not useless and unusable. Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Powerful & paradoxical, like many things about the Body of Christ. Not only are the weak to be tolerated in our midst, they are necessary - even deserving of special honor (I Cor. 12). I have failed to honor the weak most of the time when I considered myself strong. I have much to learn about the Body.
Posted by: Dan | May 06, 2005 at 11:43 PM