16 - Mar - 2010
Date: 16 March, 2010 | Posted By: Jonathan Blundell | Category:
community 2.0
“Community is the place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” – Henri Nouwen
There are times when community gets tough. When jumping out of the (fellow)ship seems way easier than sticking it out. But when we abandon ship because it holds people we don’t like, we also abandon community.
“Community has little to do with mutual compatibility. Similarities in educational background, psychological make-up, or social status can bring us together, but they can never be the basis for community. Community is grounded in God, who calls us together and not to the attractiveness of people to each other. There are many groups that have been formed to protect their own interests, to defend their own status, or to promote their own causes, but none of these is a Christian community. Instead of breaking through the walls of fear and creating new space for God, they close themselves to real or imaginary intruders. The mystery of community is precisely that it embraces all people, whatever their individual differences may be and allows them to live together as brothers and sisters of Christ and sons and daughters of his heavenly Father.” – Nouwen
It’s easy to build community when everyone looks like you, talks like you and believes the same things as you — but is that really the type of community we’ve been called to be a part of?
How have you struggled with these barriers? How have you overcome them?
“Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all.” – GK Chesterton
17 - Feb - 2010
Date: 17 February, 2010 | Posted By: Jonathan Blundell | Category:
Ministry,
Take Action
From Francis Chan:
http://www.vimeo.com/7152556
Excellent!
How does your community of faith compare? Are you trying to push the Big Red Tractor with your own strength, or putting its true power source to full use?
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05 - Jan - 2010
Date: 05 January, 2010 | Posted By: Jonathan Blundell | Category:
community 2.0
This coming Saturday (Jan. 8 @ 9 a.m.) I plan to meet with a number of folks interested in building community within our tribe.
The group will be made up primarily of our community group facilitators and hosts.
We’ll be working through our regroup material as some what of a refresher course and I hope to show this video from the TransFORM Network as well…
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18 - Nov - 2009
Date: 18 November, 2009 | Posted By: Jonathan Blundell | Category:
Faith,
Misc,
encounter
we had a great time Sunday with another living room encounter!
great food, great discussion (including some great insight from the kids as well).
but we’d love to get your thoughts on our living room encounters as well (whether you participated this time or not).
help us improve by taking a couple minutes to fill out our online survey. the results are completely anonymous and we won’t come banging on your door asking you to explain yourself.
Take the survey
thanks in advance!
14 - Sep - 2009
Date: 14 September, 2009 | Posted By: Jonathan Blundell | Category:
Faith
So, I heard about a CRAZY idea while watching #thenines last week.
Someone has the audacity to think they can read through the entire Bible in 90 days! 90!
I have trouble reading through it in a year. (I even tried again this year and didn’t make it past January.)
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