One anothering in quarantine on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

And this week on the podcast, we are going to talk specifically about our situation right now.

We are in week four or five or maybe even six, depending upon where you might be in the country

and where you might be in the world of our stay-at-home orders,

our quarantining, our social distancing. And we've passed the threshold of the adrenaline of

something being different. And we're now into this becoming sort of a normal routine.

And man, that's quite different, isn't it? We long.

Do you feel yourself longing for social relationship, longing to be with people, longing to

sit with people, and to give people a handshake and a hug, and just being with each other. There's a reason that we long for

that. I mean, the scriptures, for we who believe, we long to be in community together. We long

to be with one another. We long to engage in the one anothering of scripture. And so a good question I think that we could talk about in

these days is, how in the world do we foster this responsibility that we have, the commands of

scripture that we engage in one anothering together while we're staying at home and while we're apart.

I think the scripture actually gives us some really decent principles to help us with this.

And this is not really all that different than when we would normally be together.

Just the social structure becomes a little bit different.

But we see where much of the New Testament was

written by Paul, and it was written because he was in a different social location. He was

in a different place than the people he was wanting to write to. And it's interesting to me,

the way in which Paul addresses from the outset, almost every

letter that he writes, you know, with the exception of Galatians and maybe First

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