Community

Community is defined as a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.  The definition goes on to describe a sense of ownership and desire.  Have you ever felt apart of community?  Have you ever experienced community in such a rich way that you were better off because of it?

Community has become a central and vital role in my life.  I am apart of many different communities.

• I have my closest community of the most important woman out there and two children.  We experience life together in the most common ways. My Family.
• I have my close friends.  We laugh with one another, enjoy meals together, bring our families together, speak truth into one another’s life.
• I have my community group.  This is the group of people from FBC that gather bi-weekly to talk, laugh, encourage one another, pray together, learn, and build one another up.
• I have recently become a part of a scholastic community of men every week for seminary.
• I have my neighbors.  Those people who live directly around me.  It has been a great joy in the life of our family to get to know them and be known by them.
• I have a growing group of students.  I lead and pastor the youth ministry here at FBC, I am gratefully submerged into the community of junior high and high school students.
• I am apart of a growing community of people online; here on this blog, on Facebook and Twitter.  Even if it’s only 140 characters at a clip, community can be found there.
• I am apart of the local church body here at FBC.  My family and I fit under the umbrella of those who are inside the Christian faith.
• Ultimately I am apart of the community of Christ and the Church worldwide.

Community runs through just about every aspect of my life.  It molds me, shapes me, and makes me who I am today.  I can’t avoid this.  How has community affected you?  What communities are you in?  Did I miss any?

~Peter