Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

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From the moment you were born until you take your last breath, deep, authentic connection is the thing your soul most craves.

Request Rejected This page is unavailable due to either geographic restrictions or other restrictions in place at this time. In Find Your People, my dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic relationships can be healthy for all. But Allen knows better, and Find Your People is both realistic and hopeful in considering how we might find healing in relationships.Our relationships are exceptionally difficult because they involve two (or more) sinful people trying to get along. As a result, I have had the opportunity to develop – and continue to develop – into the best version of myself. Since God has eternally existed in the fellowship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to be made in his image means we are irreducibly social beings. I would suggest asking your "Sage" if they like having everyone unload on them rather than assuming it.

But as an introvert, several of her examples and suggestions for true community sound eerily similar to what I consider my personal nightmare. Inside that 150 are layers of friendship that deepen with how much time you spend with a person and the degree of your relationship with them. With a Master's in Biblical Studies from DTS, Jennie is the author of two Bible studies, Stuck, a CBA best-seller, and Chase, and the ECPA "New Author of the Year" winner of Anything and Restless, which also includes a DVD-based study.Scientists now warn that loneliness is worse for our health than obesity, smoking, lack of access to health care, and physical inactivity. We’ve replaced intrusive, real conversations with small talk and soul-bearing, connected living with book clubs—because the superficial stuff is less messy. But the vibrant picture Jennie paints of the life we’re meant to live together is so compelling, you can’t unsee it. You will work alongside inspirational professionals who support these stories, and you will become one of these professionals. It’s designed to connect with a young, social media–using audience, so I’m even willing to overlook the use of an emoji in published text.

October 1, 2021 8 brainstorming techniques to harness the power of teamwork Explore the best brainstorming techniques and learn how to successfully use them in the workplace. Back then, I was neck deep in parenting young kids as well as traveling a lot, speaking, and doing events with IF:Gathering, the ministry organization I lead. Now, I’m exaggerating a bit perhaps, but we introverts would like to gently petition that “pop-in culture” not become the standard for true community.

Giving people mentally assigned roles invariably means friendships break down when someone stops satisfying a role or can no longer satisfy a role for you. It’s this last ingredient that drew my mind back to the conversation with our spiritual director more than six years ago. The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that's crucial to our mental and spiritual health. Help TGC bring biblical wisdom to the confusing issues across the world by making a gift to our international work.