Community

If I were to ask you to define community and what it means to you I wonder what you'd say.  As a body of Christ we talk about it, we preach about it, but do we truly hear it, want it, live it?  For the most part I doubt most of us do.  In fact most people that I know, including myself, don't.

I attended the same church my entire life up until a few years ago when we moved. After moving we decided that spiritually we wanted to live in community, we wanted to have a body of believers to grow, serve and love life with.  We "shopped" for a new home here in Normal.  Finding a new church is not easy, it's like Baskin Robins, there are so many flavors and if you are the kind of person who just loves ice cream you can see good in all of them.  I love Christ, so much, that it is hard for me to not just instantly be in love with a group of people who are also in love with Him.  I want to serve Him every single day I'm alive.

The church we have been attending since August is by most accounts a good fit for our family.  They have a great youth program that Dakota really enjoys attending and is making lots of new friends and building awesome relationships with the leadership.  The three younger ones are also making lots of friends, Kat even looks forward to Sunday mornings now.  There are other homeschooling families attending that we have been blessed to get to know.

I've met many wonderful people, but 8 months into this new journey I don't feel like we are truly iving in community.  With everything going on lately in our lives I have desired those relationships more than ever.  Maybe I'm rushing it, maybe I'm looking for an instant love and connection that is going to take years to build.  But I don't want it to take years, I want to share this incredible journey with other believers now.

I'm afraid that finding a new church home is like moving to a new town your Senior year in high school.  It takes awhile to find your niche and to build relationship. Rome wasn't built in a day right?