Campfires, Community, the Church, and Us
Community. Church. Identity. Who are we as individuals coupled with the question of who we are together. It's tough, because it seems like there are a million different answers to the simple question, "Who do you think you are?" Particularly difficult is parsing who we are in this crazy thing called the church. The following is taken from a video (embedded below) from the Rend Collective Experiment (and written out below if you're a word person instead of an aural person): Is there anything quite like a campfire? The community that’s built there by people sharing their stories and singing their songs is truly special and so intimate. It’s like being 10 years of age again and sharing all your secrets with your best friend. And that openness and vulnerability is exactly what we should see in the greatest community on earth, the Church. There are no walls out here and there should be no walls of defense, towards god or eac...