[:en]BUILDING COMMUNITY
What is the difference between “community” and “club”? “Community” is a place where the person you least want to live stays, says Henri Nouwen. While a “club” is a place with people we want to live with. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
The Christian church was the first institution in history to bring together on equal footing Jews and Gentiles, men and women, slaves and free. By forming a community out of diverse cultures, Paul said, we have the opportunity to capture the attention of the world and even the supernatural world beyond (Ephe. 3:9-10) – (Philip Yancey)
“The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world” – (G.K. Chesterton)
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