This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today, we continue in a series called Better Together.

In this series, Rick takes us through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and shows us how to cultivate

deep, meaningful relationships with the people around us.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you about a special resource

that will help you learn how to love, trust, and work together with your family,

friends, and community to achieve God's purpose for your lives.

It's called the 40 Days of Community Study Kit.

You can take a sneak peek at this great resource, which includes a six session DVD and study book guide

by going to PastorRick.com for, by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4,

while you listen to today's message.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called,

Serving Together.

The Bible says it is not good for man to be alone, and God meant for us to be in community with each other.

Whether you ever get married or not doesn't matter.

Really what matters is, do you have a spiritual family, a group of three or four or five people

that you can walk through life with so you're not on your own?

And during the past four weeks, we've looked at how to fulfill different purposes God has for us by being together.

We said, we're better together when we fellowship together and when we grow together

and when we reach out together and when we worship together.

And today, we're going to look at Serving Together.

You see, God did not put you on earth to live a selfish life.

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