Dave Gipson wrote, “Anyone can worship alone in the woods. But you really have to love God to put up with the broken, wandering people who show up to worship with you on a Sunday.”3 It’s a great point that cuts both ways. At church, you must put up with other people. But they have to put up with the broken, wandering person known as you. As Augustine said, “Put up with it, because perhaps you have been put up with.”4
