Connecting in person with other people on a regular basis is vital to our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. However, today it’s easier than ever to avoid genuine communication with other humans, thanks to more people working from home, watching church online, getting food and groceries delivered to our doorstep, and interacting with other people on social media.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called loneliness a form of stress that’s so harmful it’s like smoking daily. He said the health consequences of loneliness can lead to early death from things like heart disease, stroke, and dementia.
In his book Made for People: Why We Drift Into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship, Justin Whitmel Earley told CBN News that God created us to live in a community and that His purpose is for mankind to experience Him together with other people.
“We should understand friendship not as a luxury,” he said, “but as a necessity to living the good life physically and spiritually.”
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Earley said while intimacy between husbands and wives is great, God made us to also have friends.
“I think you cannot be the husband to your wife
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