THOUGHTS ON COMMUNITY (FUSION STYLE)
As I’m typing this, Katrina appears to be in the final stages of labor. There’s a new member of the Durham family coming to town…watch out world. Congratulations to Marty and Brenda, proud new grandparents!
During the next few weeks, building up to our two series’ that we’ve been planning, i am going to be teaching community with our students during our RAZE gatherings. As I have been praying and thinking through these messages, I keep coming to this conclusion:
our students are in activity together, not community together.
When we are in activity together, our relationships and interactions are shallow. We are removed from each other’s lives, except on a limited basis. I believe this greatly undercuts our spiritual growth. I also believe that this is one reason that our fusion community groups are not accomplishing their mission currently. Community influences, motivates, challenges, and equips. We must begin to think about how our fusion groups are teaching our students to become influencers, motivators, challengers, and equippers.
So as I keep thinking through this, I’m posing two questions for you:
1) In what ways is it evident that our group is in activity together, and not in community together?
2) How can our fusion community groups become more than a youth group event, and become an environment that shapes our students?
