Community

When you hear the word community you might think of your neighborhood or a small city. If you are like me when I hear that word I think of my church family. "From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work" Ephesians 4:16. Our pastor spoke on this topic just a few weeks ago. I am just now experiencing being apart of a church community, even though I have gone to church all my life and became a christian at an early age. Church community is a family. These are people you are serving the Lord with, worshiping and glorifying with, and growing deeper in Christ with. All these things are so important in being a Christian, it only makes since that you should be so close to your church family. We started our church about 2 1/2 years ago and even before then our community was established. I know because of these people, I can make it through this life. We share the most intimate things together, just as a real family does. We all have struggles, just as the bible said we will, and because we are doing life together we will come through those struggles. We encourage each other to call upon the name of the Lord, we guide each other through His word, we listen when we need to listen and we give advice when we need to give advice. As Bo, our pastor, said, "WE NEED the church and the church NEEDS US". Yes you church is at a building, but it goes way beyond that building.

~Andrea T.