“Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 NLT)
The Spirit is inviting, inviting us to overcome our shyness and to discover anew what community in Christ is really meant to be.
The Spirit is inviting us to set aside our idealized images of community, because true community in Christ involves us in all the realities of human relationships. The Spirit is inviting us to attend once again on faithful practices and on being stretched and on our steady, prayerful need for grace in the life we share together. In essence, the Spirit now bids us to enter a form of being and acting that has no limits.
It is calling us to grow in our life with the community that is both fashioned and led forth by the Living Christ.
-- Stephen V. Doughty in “Discovering Community”
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