Community

One of the challenges of a local church as large as the one I attend here is forming a sense of community on Sunday mornings. 2,000+ human beings don't just spontaneously decide to love each other like family. But, that does not mean that lives are not touched when we gather together.

A friend's brother was visiting this last Sunday and sitting by himself in the service. Part way through, he began to cry. It was not loud or intrusive, but he simply could not help the tears.

As he was standing to leave, the man sitting behind him caught his attention and asked if he could pray for him. Within moments, they were up front with the man who had preached that day and several of the elders.

For a significant amount of time, they prayed over this visitor, calling out things in his life that they could only have known by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

For just a while they walked with him on his journey.

For just a while they formed community.