Suburban Myths – Self-Made Man

What’s a “suburban myth”? How does it relate to an “urban myth”? Well, for starters, it commutes to work. Bad jokes aside, suburban myths are the lies we tell ourselves about life and what it’s all about. This week, we’ll be examining the myth of the self-made man (or woman).
There’s a deep-seated idea in Western society that we should all be “self-made,” pulling ourselves up to a higher level of society or affluence by our own bootstraps, but does this idea mesh with a Christian worldview? In the US, we are intensely individualistic, but God has adopted us into a family and calls us to see others in light of His love for us.