dependence:independence:inter-dependence

 the first fresh anointing for you. you haven't been to one of these thursday evenings meeting for a very long time. so while you're grounded you just seize the opportunity to absorb more word of God.

particularly this evening a sharing from  a pastor that you really respect and a teaching that refers to the stage of life.

• the dependence, a phase of life where we rely on other eph 4:11-15 and high maintenance
• the independence - a phase of life where we are self sufficient but do not really care about others
• the interdependence - a phase of life where we understand the bigger picture, have a giving attitude, low maintenance with high commitment.

the ultimate purpose in life is to be fruitful not just successful.
as you progress with your life, from dependence to independence and now in the stage of inter-dependence.  it's relate really well with your own progression and age. you want to be successful and also be fruitful, because when one is fruitful it's about others, not just about oneself.
solid food for thought in the beginning of 2015!

Ephesians 4:11-15 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,  for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,  till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;  that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,  but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ