Jesus didn’t spend much time talking about what it means to have a “personal relationship with God,” although that language is certainly commonplace among Western Christians. He described the Kingdom of God, and it wasn’t an empire like His original audience might have assumed but a community of faith that we understand to be the Church. A person cannot survive or thrive in isolation, and God’s intent was never for you to do life on your own. Love, unity, and sacrifice are meant to characterize the fellowship within our community, and it extends so much further than we think. Jesus gives us so much when defining a neighbor and creating a family. Who is on your team, and how much stronger are you because you’ve got folks in your corner? Conversely, who has previously been on the other side of community for you, and what would it look like to sacrificially serve someone on the outside so they can see Jesus, too?