We all know the old saying, "Can't see the forest for the trees." Think of Christendom as the forest—a forest comprising many trees: individual believers. How might that forest be viewed if the trees were, say, a very different color?
“The most ruinous evasion of all,” says the philosopher Keirkegaard, “is to be hidden in the crowd in an attempt to escape God’s supervision of him as an individual, in an attempt to get away from hearing God’s voice as an individual.” To which Thomas à Kempis concludes: “He, therefore, who aims at attaining to a more interior and spiritual life, must, with Jesus, depart from the crowd.”
