 And even if those things didn't happen here in our congregation, although we can't deny that they do, when they happen anywhere, they affect all of us as Christians. That is, when one Christian stumbles, all of us suffer. St. Paul eloquently says so when he says that we are united in one body with Christ as the head and each of us as his members. Paul says if one part of that body suffers, all the other parts suffer as well.