“That’s why your meetings feel stilted. It’s hard to maintain an illusion of body life when you don’t have planned activities that people can follow with little effort. But you do have the chance here to discover real community. That grows where we share our common lot as failed human beings and the journey of being transformed by Jesus working in us. It thrives where people are free to be exactly who they are—no more and no less. As they learn to rely on him, they won’t have to use others to meet their needs but rather find themselves laying down their lives to help others in the same way
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