31 - Interdependence vs. Independence

God has not redeemed us just for Himself but for each other. He redeemed us so that we would be joyfully and mutually dependent on each other as a family of faith who “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal. 6:2). Continuing with his metaphor of the human body, Paul explains that spiritual gifts should not be the basis for valuing a person or considering one believer as more honorable than another. Christians need each other. Neither the individualism of supposed inferiority nor the individualism of proud independence is biblical or pleasing to God.