Once this period of spiritual dryness comes
and he does not have committed brothers and
sisters to lift him up, to push him or even drag him,
he will just fade away and get lost unnoticed. This
just proves the fact that man is really a social
being. He needs help from his fellowmen for his
own personal salvation. Jesus who knows human
nature arranged it this way. He organized his fol-
lowers into one body - the Mystical Body! As
members of one body we belong to each other
We should, therefore, support each other. Jesus
knows that the weak fallen nature of man tends to
be lazy and to cool off.
God's word for backsliders is frightening.
"When men have fled a polluted
world by recognizing the Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ and then are caught
up and overcome in pollution once
more, their last condition is worse
than their first."
2 Peter 2: 20
"For when men have once been
enlightened and have tasted the heavenly
gift and become sharers in the Holy
Spirit ... and then have fallen away, it
is impossible to make them repent
again, since they are crucifying the
Son of God for themselves and holding
him up to contempt."
Hebrews 6: 4-6