“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt. 18:20). How is Christ present in our midst? Through the Holy Spirit. “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world” (Matt. 28:20). How is Christ always with us? Through the Holy Spirit. Because of the Comforter's presence in our heart, we do not simply know Christ at fourth or fifth hand, as a distant figure from long ago, about whom we possess factual information through written records; but we know him directly, here and now, in the present, as our personal Saviour and our friend.
