Interdependence
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Yesterday, in the first day of our Christmas series, we explored the incarnation of Christ, that in ways beyond the coming of Jesus God has and continues to fill and dwell among us.Today let’s explore a facet of Christ’s incarnation–what it means for us to be interdependent with God and each other. And how in interdependence, in seeing ourselves more through the lens of relationship, we find true abundant life.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday in the first day of our Christmas series, we explored the incarnation of Christ |
| 0:10.8 | Christ that in ways beyond the coming of Jesus, God has and continues to fill and dwell |
| 0:18.7 | among us. Today, let's explore a facet of Christ's incarnation, |
| 0:24.1 | what it means for us to be interdependent with God and each other, and how in interdependence |
| 0:30.4 | in seeing ourselves more through the lens of relationship we find true, abundant life. |
| 1:16.6 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 12 verses 25 and 26. Scripture says, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. |
| 1:26.6 | If one member suffers, all suffer together. |
| 1:30.3 | If one member is honored, all rejoice together. |
| 1:35.3 | In our Western world, we see ourselves and others through the lens of individualism. |
| 1:43.3 | We pride ourselves on self-sufficiency and expect |
| 1:48.2 | others to do the same. We systematize the value of personal success, valuing freedom for individual |
| 1:57.2 | gain at times over the well-being of the world around us. |
| 2:03.4 | But if we remove the lens of our Western perspective before looking at Scripture, if we |
| 2:09.5 | free ourselves from our value system of individualism before coming to God, I think we'll |
| 2:16.3 | find his way to be quite different from ours. |
| 2:20.9 | There is no image of God that does not factor in free and paradoxical relationship. |
| 2:28.8 | God himself is three and one, father, son, and spirit. |
| 2:36.1 | In perfect relationship, comprise the idea of God, |
| 2:40.3 | a concept we cannot grasp on this side of heaven. |
| 2:44.7 | You and I are both the Amago Day, |
| 2:48.1 | the image of God ourselves, |
| 2:50.6 | but also as part of God's body in which he is the head. |
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