One of the unexpected benefits of being a part of a church isn’t what you get from it, but how essential you can become to making sure others get something from it. In God’s economy, sometimes the most essential aspect of our own faith is the power and persistence of the faith of others. When a paralyzed man had physical limitations that kept him from Jesus, it was his friend’s faith that brought him to Jesus’s feet. That lesson has a powerful lesson for all of us about the way faith, hope, and love work in the kingdom of God.