Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by

today's message. Well, we're beginning a new series on discipleship called Follow Me. But the truth is

that we have a hard time following someone we don't know, and especially following someone we don't

trust.

So discipleship boiled down is getting to know Jesus, surrendering our life to him, and

following him along with other believers.

Because when I get isolated or when I began to do life alone, I miss so much of what God's

trying to do in me. I remember years ago, one of our pastors who used to oversee groups got up here

one weekend and he said, if all you ever get from Gateway Church is what you receive on the weekends,

you're missing

over half of what we have to offer.

And he went on to say, we do life in groups.

We might come on the weekends to worship and be encouraged and be filled up again, maybe

be healed, be saved, whatever.

But we do life in groups.

So I want to encourage all of us this year that if we're not in a group,

if you're not in a group, you get into a group, into a small group, do community together

because that's where true discipleship takes place. The enemy will try to get you isolated.

It try to get you self-absorbed, try to rob you of your joy because we were called

to do life together as the body of Christ. I want to speak to you today on the subject of the power

of one. I will say that some of the most miserable people I know are those doing life alone.

There is a problem with just doing life alone.

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