Apr 27 2006
Introduction to the Community Topic
I mentioned when I started this blog that one of the chief topics I hope to do serious writing on is community. I realized this morning that discussing community in the abstract is part of the reason we don’t enjoy more of it. I could sit here and define community while I type (but when there’s dictionary.com, why do that), but what most of us really need is not a dictionary definition but a painting.
Community is something foreign to most of us American rugged individualists because we haven’t really seen it working in front of us.
So, as part of writing on community I’m going to tell you stories and sprinkle principles of what I think is Biblical community within the stories. Being as uncreative as I am, these will most often be true stories of what actually happens as we try to build a community right here in the University East neighborhood in Peoria, IL. I’ll get abstract along the way, but mostly you’ll see what I believe is crucial to authentic community nested into what we are actually doing.
