The Lord doesn’t intend for us to be alone, apart.

As the Genesis writer wrote, God didn’t create us to “be alone” (Gen. 2:18). Relationships are the single most important theme in the Old Testament—interactions between God and prophets, between family members, and between differing ethnic believers. And in the New Testament, Jesus’ three-year mission began with his calling disciples, friends to walk with him, willing hearts that would learn from him—followers that would go out into the world and speak for him.

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