Skip to main content
Explore
Follow Us

Community is regularly unscheduled contact

Where do you meet your need for community? We find community with those whom we have regularly unscheduled contact.   Going to church on Sundays doesn’t count, though it can be a good place to meet folks.   Small groups are good, but don’t really count either. I remember getting t…
By Seth Barnes
Where do you meet your need for community? We find community with those whom we have regularly unscheduled contact.
 
Going to church on Sundays doesn’t count, though it can be a good place to meet folks.
 
Small groups are good, but don’t really count either. I remember getting together in a number of small groups that never did anything else with one another. We didn’t have community.
 
Dorm life can be great for community. Everybody is in close proximity – you can hang out in one another’s rooms.
 
Take the same building and fill it with apartments and you can extinguish the possibility of community.
 
I’m in a bit of a community desert these days. Too much travel and work has made me inaccessible. Maybe the old watering holes seem a little dry now.
 
I’m going over to Jeff Hylton’s tonight to play cards and watch football. I care about the Falcons and hope they beat the Packers, but as much as anything, I’m hoping to connect with friends. I need more unscheduled connection – how about you?

Comments (9)

Comments are closed.

Subscribe to Radical Living:

Receive updates on the latest posts as Seth Barnes covers many topics like spiritual formation, what if means to be a christian, how to pray, and more. Radical Living blog is all about a call to excellence in ministry, church, and leadership -as the hands and feet of Jesus.