December 10, 2006

• What’s the use of a single LEGO piece? 

  LEGO’s are meant to be stacked and joined
  with other LEGO pieces to form a community of LEGO pieces.  Having just gotten back from Vegas, I
  overslept and missed going down to CCC today and went to Seneca Creek Community
  Church instead.  The Pastor was talking
  about Belonging: the idea that we humans desire to belong to a community just
  like a LEGO piece. 

  There are four types
  of belonging: Public, Social, Personal and Intimate.  A Public belonging is a Redskin’s fan at FedEx field.  That person probably knows nothing about the
  people around them.  What they do, how
  old they are but all they know is there is a love for the Redskin’s and that’s
  the bond that brings them all together. 
  Social belonging takes it one more step of knowledge such as knowing
  people’s names and bits of information about them.  The level of information increases as well as the number of
  people in each setting decreases. 
  Personal Belonging is that group of people you associate with such as a
  Bible study group, your group of collage or high school buddies, etc.  You know each other well and enjoy the
  company of each other.  The last level
  is the Intimate group of Belonging and may include your spouse or your best
  friend.  You know them extremely well
  and yet there are a few of them in this particular circle. 

  People desire to belong to one or many of
  these circles and yet have such a hard time doing so.  Why is that? 

  They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every
  day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke
  bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:42-47

  So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.  Romans 12:5

  Would you
  consider your church as a place to Belong? 
  How does our time management, value of belonging, fear of belonging
  or ignorance of belonging affect our ability to belong or help others belong?

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