One of our great challenges as a church is to approach community as a way of life, not just as a disconnected series of events. We are finding this to be a rich discovery that sometimes threatens to leave people behind.
Apparently we're not alone - from Bob Thune, Lead Pastor of Coram Deo in Omaha:
When we planted Coram Deo, we made the radical assumption that people would actually be willing to pursue intentional community. Perhaps this assumption was faulty. Though many people in our church have made intentional decisions to be in community with one another, many others have not. The objections are generally the same: busyness, crazy work or school schedules, family obligations. But could it be that what keeps us from community is not that we are “too busy,” but that we are simply not disciplined?
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