Dietrich Bonhoeffer captured it well when he said that community can be easily shattered when it lives on the basis of a "wishful image". We all bring our own hopes and perceptions of what we think community should look like. Often times what we bring to the table is less about what God wants to accomplish and more about what we want to get out of the community.
It's when we lay down our own wishful dreams that we free God to accomplish what he desires. The longer we hold on to our own dreams, the more we become a stumbling block to what God is creating.
Here at K-Colorado we are not sure what God wants to do this summer with the 120 staff and 1,000 kampers that come through these gates. But we are working right now to become an organic community that is free to love, free to live, free to forgive, and free to be the breath of God. We are learning what community is...and also what it is not.
It is not utopia. It is not a place where problems do not arise. It is not a place where people do not have burdens. It is not a place where conflict does not exist.
It is a place where we become brothers and sisters through bearing each others burdens. Choosing to listen. Choosing to enter the broken lives around us. Choosing to be broken before others with our own struggles. Choosing to bear with one another in love. Choosing to tolerate and love the differences within each other.
We are working hard this week to learn more about community. But we must know that our commonality runs deeper than our passion for kids and the outdoors. The only glue that will keep us together is Jesus himself. He restored us from the hostility that was between us and God. He also restored us from the hostility between each man.
So He must be our center as we find commonality and embrace community.
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