QUOTE : On days when my husband’s work in pastoring or my role in helping him does not seem very meaningful, I remember Christ’s explicit goals for his church. Those goals are why we are still here and not in heaven. The privilege of participating in Christ’s fullness, filling all in all as more and more people across the globe worship him as the one true God, is why you are here. This is true whether you are in Iowa City, Bangalore, Abu Dhabi, or Juarez. Even on a mundane Monday morning our hearts can be thrilled with the prospect that included among the gifts Jesus gave to his church are your pastor-husband to serve and you to help him serve—for the building up of his body. It throws everything into perspective of the big picture when we remember that Jesus ordained that this body building has a massive, Christ-centered goal: that the church would attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of him, to mature manhood, and to the measure of the stature of his fullness.