Creating Community is today’s reading. I think one of my favorite phrases when it comes to our community of believers is “we’re doing life together“. THat’s really what community is. It’s a bunch of us being committed to each other, because of our commitment to Christ. This only happens over the long haul, as trust and understanding is developed.

I think that’s one of the things that grieves me most about our church shopping mentality in America today. People “choose” a church based on what it does for them (as if they aren’t the church), and then as soon as they’re bored or tired of that church, or heaven forbid the leadership makes a decision they don’t agree with, and they’re out.

I don’t think this is what Christ meant when He designated the church as His bride. I don’t think it’s what Paul meant when when he described the church as a body; as if the arm could simply disatttach itself without consequences the minute it didn’t agree with a decision the brain made.

I’ve committed my ministry career to serving at Palm Valley Church, and doing life with the people of this body, as their shepherd. I’m thankful for a lot of people who get that we’re in this for the long haul; and they’re willing to grow with me. Because they understand that in community we all make mistakes, we all have growing to do, and we all need each other to fully become like Christ! They allow me to be myself, do the best I can, and have a blast doing life together!

This entry was posted on Friday, September 29th, 2006 at 11:47 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Should you want to respond to this post, feel free to trackback to this post from your own site.