photo credit: Gary Denness
“The church doesn’t have to create community.” a friend told me, “Community is already happening.”
True. Whether online or offline, two or two hundred, community is happening everywhere we go. Sometimes we have to look hard to see it – a guy typing on a laptop in Starbucks might not look like community, but he could be laughing, talking and crying with people around the world.
And sometimes things that look like community aren’t. “Sometime it feels like people are being nice to me just because they feel they have to – because they’re Christians or something.” said one girl in a YouTube video. “What makes people think that getting together in small group once a week is going to make me not depressed? I’m alone most of the day.” she laments in a post-suicide attempt video. She didn’t find community where someone told her community existed and her tears highlight her bitter disappointment.
Community is so important. People really cannot live without community. Some feel better in very small communities and some in large communities. Regardless, we need community. We have to learn how to live in community again. We have to learn how to function as community.
People impact communities, but communities impact the world. If we want to reach the world we are going to have to reach people who will reach their communities.
Community – that is what this blog is all about.
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