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I am getting closer…and for this I am thankful…I see glimpses of it on the horizon and hope that I will be one of several that come together to form such a community.
One of love and service that puts Jesus first in every day life yet is held together over common ground. I sense a part of this in the online cohort I am a part of through George Fox University in an evangelism course I am taking led by Dan Kimball, but I know there is more…
In our experience community came from a shared effort and the miraculous gift of God. The people we are in relationship with came together to do a short term mission trip. That shared effort has now involved over 150 people, lasted for eight years and counting, and drawn us into such close relationships that we consider these people more like family than some of our family. Some have moved in and out of the closer fellowship and been led to serve in new areas. This is ok. This is what God has brought and why would we ever strive with that? Passion is sustained through commitment not feeling. My description of Community:a secure covenant of love, a continually shared labor and a genuine concern for maintaining fellowship.
God did this. We sought to be available, we worked together in unity, and we were given the gift of community.