Imagine going to your primary care physician for a checkup, and receiving the doctor’s orders for how you can significantly improve your wellbeing—and it states that you need to cultivate health, happiness, and fulfillment by rebuilding community centered around relationships, services, and purpose.
This is exactly what our outgoing U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy recently prescribed in his ‘Parting Prescription’ for America:
“As I finish my tenure as Surgeon General, this is my parting prescription, my final wish for all of us: choose community.”
Dr. Murthy makes the case that relationships, service and purpose create an ecosystem of meaning and belonging that are essential for fulfillment. These three elements form the triad of fulfillment. By contrast, modern culture has become increasingly centered on the triad of success defined by fame, money, power. We need a cultural shift that moves us toward the triad of fulfillment.
Now, what does this mean for us as people of faith, who believe that God wants us to play a part in the health and thriving of our neighborhoods? How can we be a local presence that shifts culture? Will we be those who model this prescription, who embody this ecosystem of meaning and belonging?
May we as faith-filled individuals, and we as the Church—called by God to love our neighbors, and empowered by the Spirit to do so—be rebuilders of health and harbingers of hope in our communities. Amen.
Written by Nate Tubbs, Chicago Area Grounded Faith Convener
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Purchase your discounted ticket for Inhabit 2025 during our Early Bird sale!
We are so excited to be gathering in Chicago for the first time, and we hope to see many of you there. With the theme of Woven Together, we’ll explore how God calls us to be the Church in our neighborhoods. We encourage you to purchase your early bird tickets now, as the price will go up March 1.
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Typically, the success of a church is measured by numbers: attendance, budgets, and buildings. But what if there’s a better way?
Join us and other church leaders in our membership community to reimagine success. Together, we’ll explore alternative metrics that reflect the heart of the Gospel—centering people, connection, and renewal over programs and performance.
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