Churches have really gotten into the word community lately. I’m glad for that. It’s important to make sure people don’t fall through the cracks and that as a body we have a way of making sure we see each other. But in our rush to do so, we can take the Spirit out of community. We modernize it, quantify it, formalize it, and assign people to groups. We think we can arrange community. Or we think that because people are in the same stage of life, they will be friends—young marrieds, singles, mothers of young children, men, whatever grouping is in vogue at the moment. Sometimes these methods work
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