He treated us as equals, and so made us equals. It recognized the presence of others, and John Henri Fabre, a French naturalist, studied the processional caterpillar. He put some of them on the rim of a pot filled with flowers. They crawled around the rim until they starved to death and fell off. But not one crawled into the pot to eat the flowers.
Some people come to church for the fellowship.
They just come to crawl around the rim with all the rest of us. It's a true story written by Ernest Gordon who lived in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. He accepted Christ in the camp because of the Christians he met there. When he was released he wrote a book, Through The Valley of the Kwai, which was the basis of the movie. And he looked for a church to attend.