12/30/2024
Community I have always enjoyed community, but during this season of grief I have learned to cherish community. Our community, our church body, believers from Ingleside in Macon, and Christ Place in Gainesville, students from Mercer and Truett McConnel have all poured love into us, through words, deeds, and prayer.We have Bible study and fellowship in a community group on Wednesday night this year. One Sunday afternoon, I told Scott, “I’d like to visit our Sunday community group from last year tonight.” When Scott asked why, I told him, “I feel like I need a double dose of community this week.” And, oh how I enjoyed the familiarity of sitting at the kitchen table with old friends, enjoying fellowship, food, Bible study and prayer.Then, on Monday, came a big surprise. Online I found a video of my girl Josie-Tatum Carlson. And, much to my surprise, there she was speaking to me about my need for community, affirming the very words I spoke on Sunday, “I feel like I need a double dose of community this week.”You, too, need community, my friends. If you haven’t found a place where you feel like you belong in a body of believers, reach out. We’ll be glad to have you join us or direct you to another place that will feel more like family.“Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep” Romans 12:15“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” Acts 2:42
