Comments on: Struggling for connection http://charleswear.com/2008/03/14/struggling-for-connection/ the publisher of Next-Wave Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:37:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Scott http://charleswear.com/2008/03/14/struggling-for-connection/#comment-145 Scott Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:13:58 +0000 http://charleswear.com/2008/03/14/struggling-for-connection/#comment-145 I am pretty much with you about the family being the place of "community" fulfillment. I would rather be at home with my family than almost anything else. This is why I want to resist so forcefully the idea of forcing any sense of "community." If an atmosphere of warmth and invitation can be developed, the people who need one another will find one another (are we led of the Spirit or not?) and those who are being filled at home will feel no stress about "joining a group." The real danger in what I'm thinking is that we might just become closed. If the atmosphere of warmth and invitation is not coupled with the outward-focused DNA of Jesus, it will be a really selfish thing and will soon sour, don't you think? Thanks for the link :-) I am pretty much with you about the family being the place of “community” fulfillment. I would rather be at home with my family than almost anything else. This is why I want to resist so forcefully the idea of forcing any sense of “community.” If an atmosphere of warmth and invitation can be developed, the people who need one another will find one another (are we led of the Spirit or not?) and those who are being filled at home will feel no stress about “joining a group.”

The real danger in what I’m thinking is that we might just become closed. If the atmosphere of warmth and invitation is not coupled with the outward-focused DNA of Jesus, it will be a really selfish thing and will soon sour, don’t you think?

Thanks for the link :-)

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