We had a great time Friday night with some friends with whom we needed to reconcile. What a great time of just hanging out and talking about Kingdom stuff. Much needed! These are folks that we feel deeply connected too because God has us on similar journeys, even though we are very different people.

God calls us to community because we have Christ in common, but the practicalities of that are sometimes hard to work out. When your parenting style, political affiliation, denomination, views of community, views of mission, goals etc. are so different, true agape love must come in to play. Nothing, but the glue of singleminded focus on Christ will hold the pieces together. Isn't that the beauty of what Christ did with the disciples? He took twelve guys from radically different socioeconomic and political backgrounds (fishermen, tax collector, zealot), and taught them the Kingdom for three years....