2 Reasons You Should NOT be Independent

Last updated on: November 17, 2017 at 7:40 pm by Shaunti Feldhahn

2 Reasons You Should NOT be Independent 2017-11-17T19:40:58+00:00 Shaunti Feldhahn

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1. Letting inertia take over instead of putting yourself in community

We are all busy. I have two busy teenagers, a busy husband, and am myself always running around the country on speaking engagements. I’m full up. So what suffers? Getting together with friends; prioritizing our church connect group. “Sorry, we weren’t able to be there tonight… or last week… or the month before that…”

But we were not created to do life alone. After all, according to how the biblical book of Genesis describes it, God looked at all of his creation and said “it is good,” with one exception: it was absolutely not good for man to be alone. So God made someone with whom he could do life. Then, in the first recorded small group, he himself walked in the garden with the man and his wife.

Scientists have found that when we don’t do life with others, we are at higher risk of everything from depression to cancer. Over and over in the Bible, God stresses that he designed us to love and support each other. We are directed (not asked) to live in community with other followers of Christ. That means we have to prioritize community and work everything else around it if at all possible!

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