Winding down his sermon, Alma recapitulates a few of the key points as he beseeches his audience to start living the gospel. How can they be believers in Christ, he asks, when they are so “puffed up” with pride that they set their hearts on the things of this world? How can they claim to be church members, when they continue to imagine that they are superior to other people and persist in ignoring the needs of the poor?