Have you ever noticed how you can be in a crowded room full of people and still feel alone?

Have you ever noticed how your schedule can be really full, but your life feels kind

of empty?

Have you ever noticed that you could have lots and lots of conversations, but have little

authentic connection?

It's a problem in our world today, and I was reading an article by a mental health

expert that said interestingly enough, most people in our culture today, they're actually

seeking independence.

They don't want to need anybody else and they don't actually want to be needed by anybody

else.

And we see it nowadays as people kind of just scroll safely at a distance on social

media without any real intimate interaction, or we'll go to school or the gym with our

headphones in, our hoodie on, telling everybody essentially, just leave me alone.

I get a time for you, or we'll bank online, shop online, even watch sermons online, seeking

a life where we're not needed or known.

I would say it this way that many people were intentionally pursuing a life that destroys

our mental health and robs us of real joy and lasting commitment.

We're pursuing a life that is contrary to what God wanted us to have.

God never intended it to be that way.

How do you live a life of authentic connection and genuine community where you belong, and

you have not just an individual purpose, but a shared purpose with a group of people?

Well, we're going to look today at the words of Paul and the book of Galatians, Galatians

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