Principle: Belonging to Jesus means I belong to his community.
Consider this
As the preacher finished the sermon, Susie felt a lump in her throat and she had to blink quite hard to hold back the tears. She wanted what the preacher was talking about. She wanted to be part of a community like that. She wanted to live life well and she knew she couldn’t do that in isolation.
But isolation actually summed up her life. Being a Christian for Susie was just about her and Jesus doing stuff together. Of course she went to church on a Sunday and she was involved in a mid-week small group. But as she thought about the details of her life, even when she was with other people, it was as if she had been admitted to an isolation ward. Her contact with others was always behind a barrier.
