A post-Easter reminder...
Don't stay in your grave...when God is hauling you out...
We live in a world of individualism.
- Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project.
- Individualism is selfism on steroids.
- The individualist is the person who is convinced that they can serve God without being in relationship with God.
God is, as I said above, "hauling you out" of the grave of individualism, into the community (and all that that entails).
Community, and specifically church, is the context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity, as Paul reminds us in Ephesians.
But church is difficult. Because relationships are difficult; because what God calls us to can be difficult. But that doesn't mean that we don't learn to live in it.
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