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Sunday, July 31, 2005
A wise man said... ... that "church is not church if you're only meeting with a few of your close friends who tend to think like you do." "Why not?" I asked. "Isn't church just where two or more are gathered?" "No," He replied. "You need the mocker, the hard to get along with, the weak in your group. Otherwise, it's not a community. They're simply reflections of you." "A community is only as strong as its weakest link. In the kingdom of God, we don't eat our weak. We don't throw them overboard with the hopes of getting stronger that way. Instead, we pick them up and give them our strength. That's what is different about us." "In many cases, that weak person creates the community. People don't pull together to breeze through the easy. People pull together when they're confronted with something hard. It's hard to love those who are difficult to get along with. In your little group of people like you, when are you challenged to lay your life down? When are you challenged to put yourself aside?" I didn't have an answer. But I did realize that I might end up being the mocker... the hard to get along with... the weak. I am hoping that, should I decide to do more than just meet with my few friends who think like me, that I will not be thrown overboard.
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Jimmy Doyle is a dad, husband,
teacher, friend, and other things. Currently he's just trying to figure out what it means to follow Christ and be in community with others. He enjoys having conversations with fellow pilgrims on the journey.
Stephen Zedler has a wife and three kids who he loves very much. He has been called by God to study and teach history, particularly U.S.
history. He also believes that God has called him to reform the way children are educated in America.