What is 'community?' Is it your family? Your neighborhood? Your church, school or workplace? Or is it something more? And are we responsible for creating community?
Read what Cafe 1040 students have learned about community during the past few months:
Ben, on loving his teammates:
"We spend every waking (and sleeping) second together, so it is no small task to continually love each other the way the Book exhorts, the way we show the world we are set apart. Pray that the Helper would enable us to communally obey the greatest two commandments."
Mike, on 'secret church':
"We gathered in the center room of one of the apartments, closed the doors, took the batteries out of our phones, and had music playing outside the doors to mask any noise. On the inside we prayed, sang softly to the Lord, and encouraged one another with the Word...Until that night, I totally took community for granted. I probably still do. But God is beginning to give me a glimpse of the way His Body is supposed to function."
Brandon, on learning about real community:
"In a village, people gave what they have at every opportunity it seemed. Everything was everyone's. Each night at dinner neighbors would wander by and end up at the table with us eating and laughing. The community resembled what we read about in the Bible and it truly was beautiful."
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