Saved Alone

Jesus formed a people, a community.  "The Twelve" is an example of that.  We are supposed to be about one another but too often the religious person is about their own individual salvation and ignore the plight of others right in front of them.  The move away from communal to individual was gradual.  When monasteries were formed in the Benedictine tradition of the 6th century, a monk confessed his sins publicly as in a chapter of faults, in front of other monks.  Then we moved into individual, private confession.  The Holy Liturgy or Mass was done in community, but then we developed churches with private altars and priests saying individual masses with no congregation in order to get some stipend ($$$) for the priest or the church.  The came the plague when we all avoided one another.  Eventually, everyone spreads out when they come to church.  Avoid the stranger.  So not Jesus or Moses for that matter.