We're talking about how God's redemptive plan for humanity is set in the context of community.

Our Creator Redeemer is a Trinitarian God, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy

Spirit.

Since we were made in His image, we are divinely hardwired for relationship, plus the huge

majority of biblical imperatives are about we, instead of me.

The bottom line is we're much better together, and Western culture's tendency to over-privatize

Christianity inevitably leads to loneliness and faith fatigue.

So grab a cup of coffee and your Bible unless you're driving or on the treadmill and come

hang out on the porch with us.

Welcome back to today's episode of Back Porch Theology.

I love sitting across the table from you, Allison Allen.

I love it more.

Oh, man.

It's you, you always remind me of community, which is kind of the heartbeat.

Yeah, the theme of today's episode we're calling it, who's got your back earlier, a couple

of episodes ago.

We talked about those verses in Genesis 26 and 27, where it says God made us in His

image, and he actually there says, let us make man in our image, just emphasizing the

fact that our God is a Trinitarian God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit,

which means we were hardwired for community, for a relationship.

We were never meant to do life alone as a matter of fact.

The very first not good in human history takes place in Genesis 2 when when God says it

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