In his book, Love in Hard Places, Don Carson tells us, “Ideally … the church itself is not made up of natural ‘friends.’ It is made up of natural enemies. What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common ancestry, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort… . In this light, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.”
