What Kind of Community Do You Belong To? Day 18 - Daily Content Challenge
Part of my Morning Routine is to read the Daily Study Guide from my church. This was part of today’s reading.
We learn faith by being immersed in a genuine culture/community of faith – a church.
It makes sense, doesn’t it? We discover what it means to be a living, growing, loving, forgiving, patient, self-controlled person of faith by observing real living, growing, loving, forgiving, patient, self-controlled people of faith. And other people learn to be people of faith, in turn, from us …
Of course, we’re not perfect. We never will be. So we also model being honest, humble, asking-for-forgiveness people of faith.
We model being getting-up-and-trying-to-do-better-next-time people of faith.
I wondered about the other communities I belong to virtually.
In particular this community we have here on my Facebook Page.
We are a community of people striving to reach our God-given potential. We learn how to become our best selves by being immersed in a genuine community of people striving to reach their potential as well.
It makes sense, doesn’t it? We discover what it means to be a living, growing, loving, forgiving, patient, self-controlled person of excellence by observing real living, growing, forgiving, patient, self-controlled people of excellence. And other people learn to be people of excellence, in turn, from us …
Of course, we’re not perfect. We never will be. So we also model being honest, humble, asking-for-forgiveness people of excellence.
We model being getting-up-and-trying-to-do-better-next-time people of excellence.
