A podcast listener named Joe and popped in Lake New Jersey right to ask this, Pastor John.

On Facebook, he once wrote this, quote,

"'Christ did not die to create saved loners.

He died to create Christ-exalting friendships.'"

End quote.

Can you please explain this?

A lot of Christians are loners.

Many of them are hurting perhaps victims of the church or perhaps are victims of the

visualize that they believe.

How would you encourage or motivate Christian loners?

There are a lot of Christian loners, some by choice and some not by choice.

And my point was God's aim in the death and resurrection and work of Christ today is to

move people beyond that stage.

If you're in a stage where you are a Christian loner because you want to be or you're a Christian

loner because you feel like people have given you no choice but to be, God sent his

son to change that.

He wants to move you not just to be a soul-satisfied friend of Jesus but to be a soul-satisfied

friend to friends.

So that you experience Jesus through others as well as directly and here's where that

came from, Tony.

I preached a few months ago from 2 Timothy 4 where Paul said, at my first defense, no

one stood by me.

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