concerns, but not in ways that would by-pass individual responsibility. In order to “build up,” both the command to love God and the command to love one’s neighbor must be held up. An either/or approach to pastoral preaching (except as a step toward a both/and result) is always unscriptural and therefore deficient. Probably today there is much less emphasis on the corporate aspects of edification (the upbuilding of the entire body, as body) than there ought to be. In America, at least, we still wade around