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""...it's rarely convenient."
"...we make a personal commitment to Christ."
These two excerpts I most closely agree with you about as to why our culture, or Americans, struggle to experience true community.
First, it's not convenient. Relationships are messy. Especially when you don't necessarily get to pick and choose who you are in relationship with. It, usually, just happens for one reason or another. It's very rare in our culture for a person or family to move to a neighborhood or new home because of the relationships or community within that area. Nowadays we are more prone to move for jobs, money or weather. We don't prioritize community like those "Bible people" did. Sad.
Secondly, the idea of making a personal commitment to Christ. I don't think the idea of a personal relationship with Christ is entirely bad but it's a little contradictory for us to bottle up Christianity as a "me and my God" theology when the very nature of the gospel is to share it/tell it to others. It's good news. It's meant to be a message that is told and re-told, and, very often, a community of some form of a relationship is necessary.
Great message, Matt. Thanks for sharing."
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