ron at the weary pilgrim has a brilliant post on community and our mandate of hospitality.
"Creating community is not something that just happens. Placing a group of people of different gender, cultures, language, theological beliefs and interests into a building, hoping there will be some interaction like molecules in a test tube in which the final product is community...is a pipe dream. It's nothing more than a gathering, like-particles, people with the same interests may attract one another forming a bond and stick, while at the end, the rest disperse into space.
For real community to happen, hospitality...must be a living reality. Hospitality must be a value that is spliced into the DNA of the community. I would even go as far as saying...you can't have one with out the other."
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i like that. i fully agree. i think maybe you need to treat every person almost as family immediately. so then , even when you don't get along, and almost hate each other, you can not view each other as enemies. because even the family members you don't like, you still love. is that another way of saying it?
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