我们必须时常与神的家的其他成员相聚，这也是一个使观点改变的有效方法。我们去教会或参加基督徒团契等聚会，亦在提醒我们记得教会的存在，正面地证明了神仍然坐在宝座上。法国的思想家伏尔泰（Voltaire）是一名不信神的人，他曾说：「建立教会需要十一个人，但是我只需要一个人便可以把教会摧毁。」

他的话在两个方面出现了错误：第一，教会不是由十一个人建立的，而是由一个人，那就是由耶稣基督建立的；第二，没有人可以摧毁教会，因为全能的建立者说：「我要把我的教会建造在这磐石上；阴间的权柄不能胜过他」（太十六18）。

让我告诉你，教会的存在是肯定地证明活着的基督正在其中。伏尔泰已成尘土，但是基督仍然活着。想一想历代以来教会经历过的风暴；再想一想它曾经胜过多少迫害？既然如此，难道我们还能否认耶稣基督是教会的建立者和保护者这个事实吗？

下次再与其他基督徒聚会的时候，请你思考一个事实：虽然每一个年代都有人预言基督教会衰败，但是到今天它仍然存在。所以，确认这个事实可以纠正我们疑惑的态度。

There can be little doubt that meeting together with other members of God's family is a powerful way of bringing about a changed perspective. Another thing that happens when we go to church or meet together in Christian fellowship is that we are reminded that the very existence of the Church in today's world is proof positive that God is on the throne. Voltaire, the French infidel, said: "It required eleven men to build the Church; I will prove that it needs only one man to knock it down."

He was wrong on two counts: first, it was not eleven men who built the Church, it was one man, the Man, Christ Jesus, and second, no one can ever knock it down, for its omnipotent Founder declared: "I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it" (Matt. 16:18).

The mere existence of the Church is, I submit, decisive proof that the living Christ is in the midst of it. Voltaire is dust, Christ lives on. Think of the tempests the Church has weathered through the centuries. Think also of the persecutions through which it has victoriously come, and try, if you can, to account for this extraordinary phenomenon apart from the fact that its Founder and Protector is Jesus Christ.

The next time you meet together with your fellow Christians, reflect on the fact that, although every generation has produced people who have predicted the downfall of the Christian Church - it is still here. The realisation of this is yet another thing, I suggest, that helps to put our doubts into the right perspective.