A cartoon in a Saturday Evening Review features a young boy sitting under a tree taking inventory of his relationships. So far, I have fourteen people who love me, twenty-two people who like me, six people who tolerate me, and I have only three enemies. When it comes to relationships, how are you doing?

John Donne said over 400 years ago, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Any man’s death diminishes me...therefore, never ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”

Christians, particularly, are not called to isolation, to individualistic indulgence, to materialistic mono-vision. Christians are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, formed as the family of God. We are called to belong as well as believe. And I’d…