What Community Is

We’re in week 2 of our communal disciplines series and I’m loving it. We’ve defined community this way…

A group of people who practice these key 5 disciplines with each other in an environment where healing is the goal and you know you are loved.

Authenticity
Application
Accountability
Guidance
Encouragement

Two common substitutes for community are mission/action oriented groups and study groups. Groups that are centered around doing something – ministry teams, compassion teams, committees – and groups centered around learning or head knowledge – Bible studies, Sunday School classes, small group – are both common substitutes for true community.

Here was the key point to understand – it’s not that either one of these groups are incorrect. We need them both. It’s just that by themselves, they are incomplete when it comes to the subject of life change and spiritual formation.