The Importance of Community

The Importance of Community:
People need a life-giving, caring community. People need to be taught who they are by the community they have grown up in. If that community teaches someone the wrong things or the false things about oneself, one must choose a new community to “grow up in” or re-grow up in. That is why sometimes we feel like a ten year old,  re-learning everything. “I grew up on mars and everything I learned on mars is right, on mars. But now I’m on earth and I cannot speak Martian. Those experiences are real…on mars, but not here on earth”. Doug Dzur. I grew up believing that I am a shameful being that I am shameful and bring shame and embarrassment to everyone I meet. Those thoughts and feelings are real, but they are not true. As a parent, you have to show your children, not define, show them who they are. God already created them perfectly, we as their community need to reveal that to them. Without good, life-giving relationships promoted by a God centered community, people continue their unsuccessful search for their God-given identity’s. When family and community encourage people to face their traumas and get through life’s sticking points they find out who they are and they learn to live from their hearts.

People Need People to Recover:
People heal in authentic, God centered relationships. Wounded people and unbelievers come to the Lord through relationships. People need people who further God’s purposes in our lives, to achieve wholeness in a fractured world.