As simple as it is complicated

We need ____. This is the beginning and the end of community. When did meeting together get so complicated? Questions questions cloud the airtime and concerns that revolve around perspectives and insecurities.

How frequent do we meet? when do we do meet? who are we meeting with? who is leading this thing? what are we supposed to be doing? who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’? Am wearing the right thing?

It can get complicated. When we are trying to figure out all the ‘right’ answers to questions about community we cloud the one thing that matters. I could be a meal together, a movie, a worship time, a poker night, or just hanging out enjoying each other. Let it happen. Don’t answer all the questions. Answer whats needed.

Part of answering those questions is coming to grips with what the kingdom looks like and how it advances.

The kingdom of God advances by people lovingly placing themselves under others, in service to others, at cost to themselves. This “coming under” doesn’t mean that followers of Jesus conform to other people’s wishes, but it does mean that we always interact with others with their best interests in mind.

Boyd, Gregory A. The Myth of a Christian Nation

We ‘come under’ others to love, for love and with love. We come to learn, to see through these eyes and worship the perfect example of that love. And in a world of constant analysis and critique, we need it.