Moving towards being a family

"If Scripture is authoritative in our lives and not just a rabbit's foot we carry around, we must be moving more and more towards being a family, towards relatively small groups who know each other deeply enough and broadly enough to speak the truth in love. Otherwise the gifts of the spirit will be much less powerful than they're meant to be. Then we'll all be spiritual midgets, and the world won't have a way of seeing the light set on a hill." -- John Alexander