In my “tent making” as a business consultant, I serve a client in what the marketplace calls “senior living”.  With over 1,500 employees and facilities in multiple cities, this organization supports seniors across a “continuum of care” from “independent living” to “assisted living” to “skilled nursing” to “hospice”.  Those living independently remain able to handle “activities of daily living” without assistance from others.  The framework makes complete sense in the natural, but it misses a supernatural truth that God designed us to live in community.  Considering the context of work, we can only accomplish our labor because others have done theirs.  As a simple example, think of the myriad vital supplies in our work places that derive from the labor of others.  Most of us work in teams, and understand the expression that “Together Everyone Accomplishes More”.  At a systems level, we can recognize the interdependence of sectors at work – public, private and social collectively endeavoring to “make the world go ’round”.  Expanding our horizons even further, we can see a practical workplace expression of Paul’s analogy with the “Body of Christ” — the Church at Work “rising and falling” collectively and individually (1 Corinthians 12:12, 18, 26-27); and the Early Church modeling interdependence when poverty was eliminated in their shared sphere of influence (Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-35).  There are over 45,000 Christian denominations today, but the Church will only transform the whole world as we build the capacity to work with a John 17 spirit of unity.