New Testament 171

New Testament 171 2015-06-11T23:13:56-06:00

 

Simeon the Stylite
A fifteenth-century icon of St. Simeon Stylites, who lived for 37 years — quite pointlessly, in my opinion — atop a pillar in Syria

 

Matthew 18:19-20

 

Christianity was never meant to be a religion of isolated piety.  Hermits and anchorites are foreign to the New Testament.

 

Christians are intended to be in fellowship with one another, to worship as congregations, “to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light” (Mosiah 18:8).

 

 


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