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All Things New Part: 3

 • Derek Harvey

Drawing on Mother Teresa's words that "loneliness is the leprosy of the West," this message confronts how American individualism has quietly reshaped our faith, turning followers of Jesus into consumers who church-shop and ghost rather than commit. Rooted in the communal language of Scripture—the Lord's Prayer's "our Father," Paul's repeated "our Lord," the shared life of Acts 4, and Jesus' promise in John 13 that the world will know his disciples by their love for one another—it argues that the church was never meant to be a place you attend but a family you belong to, where "me becomes we." The takeaway is an invitation to decide whose family you belong to and then live it out: stay through the uncomfortable parts, show up for your people, and share a meal together, because people who stay grow and people who leave do not.