This is Part 2 in response to the statement you made in this article, Jonas . . . and which I highlighted:

“I’m open to the smallness of community.”

Part 1 was about The Sleeping Giant . . . and small cell groups

Part 2 is about MusicaSophia . . . and European sense of community

Many years ago a group of young men with an older leader came to America from Germany. They came to bring a gift that they had shared all over Europe with tremendous success . . . and now they wished to share it with Americans.

Appointments were set up for months in advance to present an evening of MusicaSophia — a special kind of music meditation — to the American masses. A weekend retreat would be the follow-up of these brief presentations . . . a weekend based strictly on Classical music.

However, to their dismay, there were not huge turn-outs at these presentations, as had been true in Europe — and so they became discouraged.

Believing themselves to be a failure, they left earlier than planned … with appointments still pending. And who was left to pick up the pieces and carry out the remaining appointments? You guessed it: Yours truly … Moi!

They had not realized that America, unlike Europe, is primarily a non-Classical music culture — and that Americans have so many activities all vying for their attention at the same time, that they end up attending none.

However, what resulted for me was that the small groups in attendance ended up being the most wonderfully intimate type of group I have ever known— the true Agape Feast!

Some presentations had quite large attendance, but it was the small ones that were truly deeply meaningful. We ended up feeling a very real sense of community in these smaller groups of anywhere from three (3) to nine (9) in number. The weekend retreat among the monks at Mission San Luis Obispo was especially notable in that respect!

Also, MusicaSophia is a very powerful means of accessing and impacting soul memories, and so the intimacy of the smaller groups made the experience that much more powerful . . . actually magnified in depth and power!

The Agape Feast was made wonderfully real in these experiences with MusicaSophia . . . a small group community in the true sense of the word!