<p>We celebrate the lone genius, the self-made entrepreneur, the solo adventurer. Alex Honnold free-soloing 1,600 feet with no rope. </p><p>But what if the thing we admire most is the thing that's making us loneliest? We have more tools, more access, and more "connections" than any generation in history, and yet we're starving for presence.</p><p>In the final week of our series in Jude, we look at a first-century church teetering on the edge of collapse — scattered, fragile, and tempted to go it alone. And we discover that Jude's survival plan wasn't a new doctrine or a purity test. It was a structure built on two kinds of dependence: vertical (anchored to God) and horizontal (roped to each other).</p>