by the wind. The second word (“blown here and there”), periphero, is like the first yet connotes an even more forceful tossing. The contrary doctrines of heresy were already rushing against Christian believers as Paul was writing; it was frighteningly easy for them to be deceived. They must hold on to each other as they seek to know more of and become more like Christ. Only in fellowship and service and maturity would they be safe. More than one observer of the modern church has commented regretfully