Alone......."I Get Buy with a Little Help from My Friends"

So my best friend from (God knows how long ago) called me the other day from college. It was awesome, we talked about everything (which for us usually covers life, love, and happiness and all thats in between LOL) going on in our lives. We talked about our romantic destinies with my soon to be wife, and his hopefully soon to be fiancee.



Its weird thought because, as we were talking I began to notice and rememeber all the times that this has happened. I mean, I can't count the number of times in my life that him and I have been looking up at the stars, wondering what our lives were going to be like. Its funny though, because through all of those time. I think it really shows us a great picture of God's church.



Don't you find it strange that (perticularly in the gospels and the new testament) a lot of the human interactions and Holy Spirit interactions that go on within God's people (for the most part) are done in community? As I look through scripture and how God interacts with the early Christians it just fascinates me how much community there is going on. I mean, it happens so often that its like almost a pre requisit for our body.

I find it even more intriging that for the most part, every major figure in the bible had some sort of companion. Moses had Joshua, David had Jonathon, Paul had Timothy, Barnabbas had Mark. I mean, even Jesus had his inner three with Peter, John and James.

When did we start believing that this is a one man show? I mean, when as a people did we start to think that It was God, and us and thats it. I mean, don't get me wrong, your relationship with God is entirely your responsibility, but when did we forget that Jesus was HUGE on brotherhood and community. I mean, it seems like Jesus was always talking about interacting with your brothers, and or how to treat a brother. In short, God designed us to NEED each other, not to shun each other. I think that is a big problem with Western Christianity, our desire to go it alone. God clearly wants us to work together, and to be there for each other. God has always been a strength in numbers kind of guy, and especially in this day an age, I think we need each other more than ever.......