by Jerry Senn
“We all need somebody to be accountable to. We need a partner. Moses had Aaron, Elijah had Elisha, Hezekiah had Isaiah, and Daniel had Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. David had Jonathan. Interestingly, when Jonathan was alive there was no recorded sin in David’s life. It was after Jonathan left the scene that David went south spiritually. Both Saul and Samson went solo and eventually imploded. We are designed to do life and ministry together. It’s no accident in Luke 10 that Jesus sent out the 70 missionaries in groups of two.”
“From the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work” (Ephesians 4:16). “We are partners working together with God” (1 Corinthians 3:9). “For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20).
“Here’s a weird truth about human beings. While we long for community, we also run from it. It has been said that when humankind fell from grace, we inherited not only a tendency to hide from God, but a tendency to hide from one another as well. We struggle with conflicting desires. We desire to be in tune and in touch with one another, and we hold people at arm’s length. These barriers effectively insulate us from one another, and become impediments to true community in Christ.”
(From Jerry Senn’s sermon, 6/1/25)