I have been pondering questions lately; asking myself what is community and why live in community. The very thing I came to GA to do; live in community with other believers.
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42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
ACTS 2:42-47
I think of this passage every time I think of community. When arriving here in GA our group went over this passage, wanting to make it our foundation for how we live.
Living in community is not a normal thing of today’s society. I don’t believe that Americans know how to live in community. In school or even at church, we aren’t taught how to get along with other people or how to share or be thankful.
Coming to ComLife has been challenging for our whole group, some more for others. You throw eight people together that all have different backgrounds/lives and try to unite them together on the grounds of Act 2. Wow, can you say difficult! For me I thought last week was very difficult for our group. We were all doing our own individual thing, our relationships with each other were not deepening and that is not what God calls community. When someone had a problem our team wasn’t embracing the person or the problem, and we weren’t bringing it before the Lord.
Unfortunate for me, God had chosen me to be the one who would go before the group to say how things were going. I did not want to be that person, for many reasons. One of the main reasons, when coming into comlife I knew I was going to be one of the youngest people in the house. I had this idea that I would learn so much from all the people older than me and I could just be a follower for once in my life. God had different plans for me.
oh by the way, if you read this blog, please feel free to encourage me by leaving a comment! 
Mags,
It doesn’t surprise me to hear that you first went to God for wisdom and courage and then you followed through when you knew God had openned a door for you! You are a great leader…remember…age does not matter when God wants to use us!! Keep following God’s leading and you will continue to be a great leader and “sister” in your community!!!
Love ya!
What you are learning/desiring is what our Christian walk should be. God designed us to be intimate with Him and to have that intimacy passed on with fellow believers. Hopefully your foundation with your family/homelife and some of the things that I tried to teach in your life will help you as you build and learn more about committment to people and relationships. Our Pastor today preached on the early believers community. Not only was it about going to temple and learning but it was being in each others homes…building each other up, praying, being accountable and encouraging one another. Thanks for bringing ‘meat’ to the table. Love you.
yeah!
I am glad you are willing to press in to the hard stuff. And by the way – I added myself to your update alert so you can cross that one off your list.
I am glad you are in comlife!
Maggie,
love to see you sharing what God put on your heart with the group, even if your honesty can cause a few sparks to fly. You are brave and the group will feed off of your courage and heed your call to rally and seek unity.
Maggie!! Im glad to see your doing well. I see your still your deep thinking self haha. I miss you alot. Im glad to see God is workin in your life and using you. Ill try to keep up on your blogs but im really bad about getting on the internet. Hopefully ill see you soon. 🙂
maggie u know I love u and I really love what u r doing like ur making everything better I’m going to call u tomorrow and tell u something that happened to me today that really opened my eyes and like I just don’t know what to think about it