As scholar D. A. Carson writes: 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 nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything of the sort. Christians come together, not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have been saved by Jesus Christ.… In this light, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.
