Well, we've addressed the challenges being a Christian loner in APJ's 109 and 212.

A lot of helpful counsel can be found in that pair of episodes, APJ's 109 and 212.

A listener named Brian heard them and writes into us with a question that compliments

what has been addressed previously in those two episodes.

Brian writes this, hello Pastor John, what would you say is the difference between being

a loner who is a Christian and a loner who fails to love the brothers, as John puts

it in for Sean 314, is that the same thing is being a loner, the same thing as being

an unloving person?

How would you work through this Pastor John?

Well, as often, let's start with a definition we can't get to talk about, we don't know

what we're talking about.

So here's my definition, I'm just going to choose one of loner.

A loner is a person who is quite comfortable being alone.

He's comfortable reading a book in the evening with nobody else in the apartment.

He's comfortable spending time on his woodworking in the garage with nobody else around.

She's comfortable working in the kitchen or on her handwork or hiking in the mountains

without any friends around.

So that's what I mean by loner.

Because of genetics or upbringing or experiences later in life, a person now finds himself or

herself to be quite comfortable being alone.

And so the question is, does being a loner mean that you are a person lacking in love

for other people?

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