<p>13:37 <i>What I say to you I say to all: Stay awake</i>- Mt. 24:43-45 define watching for Christ's return as tending to the needs of our brethren; this is what will lead our hearts towards preparedness for the second coming, this is the result of our awareness of the imminence of the Lord's return.</p><p>&ldquo;Watching&quot; is not only a guarding of one's own spirituality; the idea of guarding a house and the people and goods inside it suggests that our watching is of our brethren and sisters too. Elders &quot;watch for your souls&quot; (Heb. 13:17) in this sense. Christ's parable about the gate-keeper might at first suggest that the duty of watching is only with the elders; it is for <i>them</i> to watch and feed the flock, in the same way as it was the duty of the house manager to guard the house and feed the other servants (Mt. 24:43-51; Mk. 13:33-37). But that parable is intended for <i>all</i> of us; &quot;Watch <i>ye</i> therefore (as intensely as that manager)... and what I say unto you, I say unto <i>all</i>, Watch&quot; (Mk. 13:37). In other words, we are all elders, the command to watch for each other extends to each of us. And yet how really concerned are most of us about each other&rsquo;s salvation?</p>