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Christian Community
"Community" is a warm fuzzy word, connoting togetherness, love, mutual care, faithfulness, and interdependence. The word "community" seems obsolete today in some ways, like "horse and buggy", or "steam locomotive", or "rotary phone." So many of our technological advances mitigate against human community. Television and air conditioners keep us inside our houses. Suburbs are designed for automobile and not pedestrian traffic, with few common spaces for people to gather. Mobility has spread extended families all over the map. People move into and out of neighborhoods before you can get to know them. People are disconnected and lonely.
To say that we at Covenant Fellowship seek to have Christian community means that we seek to have real human community, but human community of a Christian nature. What does this mean? To be in community means that we are a group of people committed to one another, and committed to one another’s good and well being. As a Christian community we are a group of people with a common bond in our belief in Jesus Christ, a shared commitment to following in the way of Christ, a shared sense of dependence upon the work of Christ for our salvation, and a shared sense of new life in and through Christ. Thus we see ourselves not just as a community but as a family, a family of faith, brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. It is in this sense that our church family becomes in many ways our extended family. Add to this our commitment to intergenerational community life, and it even feels like a big extended family when we gather together.
We are not naïve or utopian about Christian community. Christian Community is easier to talk about than to do. But we seek and desire to make substantial progress towards this goal. |
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