Helping Each Other?

I want to continue the "Street Boys" theme but have so much in my head at the mo that I need to put this up

On Sunday at church there were baptisms. One lady was so profoundly prophetic it left me in tears.
She was oldish and her legs just didn't work properly any more. Anyway there are steps up to the cute pool and then a plastic chair to climb in on. All very precarious for the able bodied.
Anyway the usual - she is left to walk to the steps herself, but what happens is once on the first step she is stuck and cannot go on, so 2 women come either side of her to help her up and the congregation just seems to stop breathing. I think we were all praying her up. Every time she climbed another step there was a cheer and clapping. More clapping and cheering as she got in the pool and then the same thing as she came back down again. This lady did not get baptized alone!

But for me I saw it as what we should all really be doing for each other. When we make that commitment to move on in our Christian walk we should not be moving out alone, and not even just into the hands of 2 leaders we hardly know. It should be a joint church thing. We should all be praying for each other, all rooting for each other, all just there for each other, praying, cheering when we get it, praying some more when we are struggling.
But so often we don't do this. We are not there for each other. We do leave it to the leaders to be doing the stuff. And the interesting things was the 2 youngish men who were leaders and "doing the dunking" seemed not sure what they should be doing. And again I feel that was what God wanted to say - why should we expect people who are put in positions of leadership to do all the praying, cheering, encouraging, esp when, as seemed like this, they didn't quite know what was going on.
It goes back to that thing that we are all connected and should be know how to support each other.
Let's stop leaving it to those in named positions!

Oh and do look at Joanna's post on "Street Boys" as I think it gives us all something to pray about, talk about.