Your Friends Form You: The Theology of Christian Community (Guest: Zeke Wallace) - w/ Allison Lind скачать в хорошем качестве

Your Friends Form You: The Theology of Christian Community (Guest: Zeke Wallace) - w/ Allison Lind

What if your friendships are shaping far more than your social life — what if they’re shaping your destiny? In this episode, Counteract Podcast host Allison Lind sits down with Counteract USA’s Church Relations & Men’s Cell Coordinator, Zeke Wallace, to unpack the theology behind Christian community. From Aristotle’s three types of friendship to Augustine’s concept of “spiritual gravity,” they explore how what you love — and who you surround yourself with — forms who you become. They discuss why Christianity was never meant to be practiced alone, how isolation weakens discipleship, why the New Testament centers around the local church, and what it practically takes to build friendships that actually make you holy. If you want to grow in sanctification, you cannot do it in isolation. Your friends are forming you — the question is: forming you into what? “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.” — 2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV Links:     •    Follow Allison on Instagram:   / ____lind____       •    Watch on YouTube:    / @counteractusa       •    For more about Counteract USA:     •    Website: https://counteractusa.org/ (https://counteractusa.org/)     •    Instagram:   / counteract.usa       •    Facebook:   / counteract.usa       •    For more about the Herzog Foundation:     •    Website: https://www.herzogfoundation.com/ (https://www.herzogfoundation.com/)     •    For more about the Real Life Network:     •    Website: https://reallifenetwork.com/ (https://reallifenetwork.com/) MENTIONS: Biblical community, iron sharpens iron, koinonia, John 17, Acts 2, Proverbs 27:17, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Gen Z isolation, church discipleship gap, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, friendships of pleasure/utility/virtue, Augustine’s “spiritual gravity,” City of God, san ctification, confession and forgiveness, Tolkien & C.S. Lewis, monastic communities, men’s cell groups, partnering with the local church.