I bet he did. Probably several nights. And in case blaming someone else doesn't work, you can always blame God. The woman YOU put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it . With our ever present need to be king or queen of the hill, we destroy both our vertical relationship with God AND our horizontal relationship with one another.
Community is destroyed.
And it's still going on. You probably saw it this week. It begins subtly, but competitively, with of us each trying to one up the other. We can unveil in this story several warnings of the traps that threaten God's desire of our oneness in church. First, we compare ourselves to others.