The Cost of Doing Everything Yourself

Have you ever gone days without needing to ask anyone for help?
Groceries arrive at your door. Coffee is ordered ahead. Work, worship, and errands can all happen without a single face-to-face conversation. Life runs efficiently, but often at the cost of shared life.

What if a fuller life comes not from convenience, but from shared life with others?

Tanner Smith and Chase Rashad Stancle examine the value of self-sufficiency and how it shapes our neighborhoods, churches, and relationships. They talk about proximity, hospitality, and why growth often comes through inconvenience, disagreement, and showing up in person. Along the way, they offer practices that help rebuild everyday connection, starting right where we live.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How convenience can replace interdependence

• Why presence matters more than efficiency

• One concrete practice to try with your neighbors

Show Notes:

• Genesis 2:18 — “It is not good for humans to be alone”

• Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine Pohl

• You Are What You Love by James K.A. Smith

• Lessons from Mister Rogers, an article on The Latest by Heidi De Jonge, a Colossian Forum trainer

• The extra pie practice: Make or buy more dessert than you need, then use it as a low-pressure reason to knock on a neighbor’s door. The goal is to create a brief, human moment that opens the door to connection.

• Pie recipes from Sarah: Chocolate Cream Pie and Lemonade Pie

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