Walking The Way | Community | Week 13

/> ### MESSAGE NOTESWalking The Way | Community | Week 13 | August 4, 2024Teacher: Alison Myers/> “You can make a strong case that of all the practices of Jesus, the two most important are SILENCE & SOLITUDE, and COMMUNITY. Because they are the two containers that hold all of the others. As a general rule, our best moments of healing and freedom and breakthrough and experience or encounter with Jesus, are either when we are alone with him in the quiet, or when we are together in community.” – John Mark Comer /> Jesus was formed spiritually./> Jesus was formed in community./> Jesus formed others in community./> Community is something we must practice./> We’re lonely but we’re afraid of intimacy. />“And so from social networks to social robots we’re designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship, without the demands of friendship. We turn to technology to help us feel connected in ways we can comfortably control.” /> "This expression is very difficult to render in English, but we could translate it by saying, ‘A person is a person through other persons.’ We need other human beings for us to learn how to be human, for none of us comes fully formed into the world. … I can be me only if you are fully you. I am because we are, for we are made for togetherness, for family. …I have gifts that you don’t have, and you have gifts that I don’t have. We are different in order to know our need of each other. To be human is to be dependent.” /> Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them. -Mark 2:2/> Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven. -Mark 2:5