This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today, we continue in a series called Better Together.

In this series, Rick takes us through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and shows us how to cultivate deep, meaningful relationships with the people around us.

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In it, you'll discover how God provides the power you need to take you from where you are to where you want to be.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called why we need each other.

Now, what is God's safety net? It is a group of other believers. You don't need a hundred. You only need five or six.

But it's a group of other believers who are committed committed to you.

The Bible says this in 1 Peter 3.8. You should be like one big family, full of sympathy toward each other.

Now, when you get in the hospital, you don't want the whole church to visit. In fact, it'd be kind of bad if all of us came.

But it would be nice to have four or five come see you and say, we're praying for you.

I'll never forget, there was a guy who came to this church for seven years. He used to sit up in the bleachers.

And he came for seven years, never got involved in anything, never joined a small group, just came to worship and left.

Never even met anybody in the church. I'm the only person he ever knew. Never made any friends in the family.

One day, he had a heart attack and he got in the hospital and then he got an infection and he was in for two weeks.

And I was out traveling around speaking somewhere. I didn't even hear about it till I got back.

When he got out of the hospital, he came to the church and he said, I'm leaving the church. I said, why?

He said, because it's unfriendly. Nobody visited me in the hospital.

I said, I'm sorry. And he left. And as he left, I thought, it's your fault.

He never visited anybody in the hospital. He never cared about anybody but himself.

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