January 26, 2025
The Cure for Loneliness | Chase Trimmier
Speaker:
Chase Trimmier
Message Resources
Message Summary
Chase began by asking each of us to imagine a table—representing our lives. The tabletop symbolizes our hopes, dreams, goals, and everything that makes us who we are. Then, he asked us to picture the four legs that support the table. These represent the key things or people that encourage, stabilize, and sustain us. For most, these pillars might include family, faith, career/finances, and friends/community. Chase reminded us that we all need community and meaningful connection with others to thrive.
A study from the American Cancer Society revealed that social isolation increases the risk of premature death across all races and causes. In today’s digital age, where much of our interaction is virtual, many of us are missing real, face-to-face, intimate connections. Chase challenged us with this truth: if loneliness is an epidemic, community is the cure. By “community,” he meant Christ-centered relationships where we are fully known and fully loved. At Cross Timbers, we are being equipped to follow Jesus, help others, build authentic community, and lead well. Healthy, Christ-centered communities shape us to become more like Jesus.
These deep relationships play a crucial role in our lives. The people in them love and encourage us, provide accountability, help set boundaries, and act as guardrails to keep us on track. They pray for us and our circumstances, walking with us as we become the people God created us to be. God designed us for community, giving us His Spirit and establishing the Church so we could experience these deeper relationships. Through community, we don’t have to bear our burdens alone. Instead, we find strength, joy, and growth by supporting one another.
Community, as Chase explained, has the power to multiply joy and divide struggles.
Discussion
1. If your life is the table, who or what currently serves as the “legs” supporting it? Are there any areas where a leg is missing or unstable? How can you strengthen those supports?
2. In what ways are you experiencing Christ-centered relationships where you feel fully known and fully loved? If not, what steps could you take to cultivate or seek out this type of community?
3. How have you experienced the community described and how have you seen community multiply joy and divide struggles in your own life?
Scriptures
Genesis 2:18 NIV – “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’”
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV – “Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’”
James 5:16 NIV – “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
Romans 12:15 NIV – “Rejoice with those who rejoice;mourn with those who mourn.”
Hebrews 10:24-25 AMP – “and let us consider[thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds, not forsaking our meeting together [as believers for worship and instruction], as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more [faithfully] as you see the day [of Christ’s return] approaching.”
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