pumped

I love being a part of a community of people. I am reminded of that constantly - mostly through my great failures in life. I need people to pick me up, brush me off and help me get back on the path that God has called me to walk. I need people to love me, encourage me and believe in me. I need people to "get my back", to serve me and allow me to serve them. I need people. Which is why I'm so pumped that the church I help lead, The Journey, had so many people in worship yesterday. I know that the same need I have for people, ever other person has as well. And so when I see people coming together and sharing community under the banner of Christ's love, it makes me smile. As a person who follows Jesus, I am just as convinced of the human need for community as I am of the human need for God. That's just the way God created us. He intended for us to live in community and even modeled that kind of living for us. Even before there was human life, God enjoyed rich relational community (The uniquely Christian doctrine of the Trinity points to this. This doctrine can sometimes be confusing - three separate but unified entities, Father, Son and Holy Spirit that are distinct yet wholly the same). Just as you and I were meant for God, we were also meant for each other. We need each other to live the kinds of lives God hopes we might live. To find any kind of fulfillment, any kind of meaning, any kind of purpose we find that we need a community of people. And The Journey is becoming that community for me. We are a group of people that gathers on a regular basis and struggles together with what it means to follow Jesus with our lives. And we do this by loving, sharing and encouraging one another. With God's help and with the support of those around us, we are learning what it means to truly live. So, where are you finding support? Who is the community of people in your life that will help you become all that you can be? You need it, I need it, we all need it. So, let's go and find it...together.