Today on Insight for Living from Chuck Swindall.

You can't stimulate someone else to love and good deeds if you're not around them.

It's impossible to be an encouragement if you live in a cave, or if you push away from

everyone else and you're not in touch with another soul.

And Sunday's come and Sunday's go and you do not fellowship with people of the faith.

You can't be an encouragement.

Encouragement is a face to face thing.

It's a relational thing.

God never intended the believer to live in isolation.

Note, the Christian life is built for relationships.

And today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reinforces this fact as he continues his classic

series called Growing Deep in the Christian Life.

So we've been concentrating on the role of the church and the power of living in community.

By the way, you might gather from some of the data illustrations that this message comes

from Deep in our archive.

Chuck titled his sermon, Encouragement Served Family Style.

I've had a song on my mind for the last couple of days since we began a conference up at

Forest Home.

In fact it's one of the great songs of the church.

Our music director, Howie Stevenson, began the conference with.

Well, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play.

Our seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day.

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