join together to share our knowledge of and desire for the great things that God has done. The writer to the Hebrews knew of the danger of forgetting this (Heb. 10:25). Though we are individually responsible before God, we find our full identity only in community, and supremely in the community of those who have faith in God. Isolation is destructive of faith, and the faith of a community of God’s people can well up into the sort of joy Israel knew here and be a foretaste of heaven itself. GOD’S