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45other people who want to grow with you because frankly, you're in a class by yourself. You need to find people who will want to help you grow.Solomon said, \(Ecclesiastes 4:9) We all need partners. Benjamin Franklin had a support group that he called, \ Most Ingenious Friends.\questions and help each other. They met every Friday night for 40 years. Do you wonder why Franklin was creative and ingenious through his late eighties? Do you wonder why his very best inventions occurred after he was 70 years old? I'll tell you why, because he had partners who propelled him. Do you?Thomas Edison had a group he called his \came up with 300 different patented inventions. You say, %u201cI'm not an intellect.\I'm no Franklin, and I don%u2019t need a %u2018Mastermind Alliance.%u2019%u201d If you're a Christian, you need partners to help pull you hand in hand on your mission to heaven. God designed his church in part to edify.\ in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.\(Romans 12:5) But look at this, using the metaphor of the human body, Paul in essence said, \, you are partners in this journey called Life and you are relating to one another like the heart relates to the lungs, or the arm to the hand, or the neck to the head. You must have each other to lean on and draw strength from.\We're like a mountain-climbing team going up Mount Everest. They're tied together by those ropes. They're tied for their safety and strength. They're all working with one another to help the team reach the top of the peak. Christians are pulling each other up. We're relying on each other's strengths. Frankly, if one of us falls, then we're all in danger of falling. We are that interconnected. So if you've got a life mission and, your life is going somewhere, it really does matter who you're tied to.\ not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?\life mission and you're in partnership with somebody who doesn't accept it, but opposes it, at very best they will resent it, at worst they will sabotage it. You%u2019d better choose your life partners carefully. I'm talking about your business partners. But more importantly, I'm talking about your marriage partners. You need a partner who will propel you.4.Need friends who will feel for you.You need some friends who will support you. \true friend is someone who walks in while everybody else is walking out. When other people see through you, a friend sees you through. When you make a mistake and everybody else wants to rub it in, a friend rubs it out. They're consistent, they hang in there with you, and they support you emotionally, physically and spiritually. They encourage you. They do what the Hebrew writer said in chapter 10:24, \toward love and good deeds.\