Saturday, February 7, 2015

I'm not a big fan of the conspiratorial apocalyptic nonsense that overwhelms some churches, sites, and whatnot... since Jesus tells us we won't know ... but there is a passage that speaks not of signs, militaristic, government and/or natural disasters... but of people .. of how people will behave..

2 Timothy 3:1-5 "You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!"

Since it appears that avoiding people like described above is increasingly difficult it makes community that much more important. Online communities, neighborhoods, local, state, ... But living and growing within a community is often difficult. Where we are forced to interact with family (or not), communities are by intention and choice. Same dysfunctions can be seen in both family and community dynamics as well as amazing support and love.

Our goal is to create a beloved community and
this will require a qualitative change in our souls
as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.