Pilgrim's Ponderings

It’s 2017 and as I look back on 22 years of walking in faith and 38 years of being alive, one of the many blessings that God has allowed in my life is the blessing of community. I am an extrovert and so I naturally love meeting people and therefore am very comfortable in community. The Christian community around me has been incredibly influential in my development as a person and has been instrumental in my faith journey as well. I see this community as vital to God’s plan in my life. And this is fitting because when I study the Bible, I see that God places a high value on community. In the bible narratives, He is the one who builds communities and is Himself the one upon whom eternal communities are built on.   When we come to the life of Christ we don’t find a loner. We find community, we find many people around him. It is wonderful to see that Jesus had no restrictions for those who sat in audience as he taught or as he performed various miracles. He did not stop to identify...