Developing a sense of community is tough. Meeting new people. Branching out of your comfort zone. Silence. Awkwardness.
There are a few simple things that help people bond:
• Eat together
• Laugh together.
• Pray together.
• Serve together.
Communities that do these things are unbelievably strong. They don’t easily break. They forgive one [...]
There’s a sort of people whom God made specifically to challenge the ideals of a former ‘best we could do.’ There is a brother and sisterhood of idea-folk. They think hard of ways to improve the mundane and important things in life.
These people aren’t well understood. They are [...]
(Note: I write these down to remember and activate them on my own blog…. NOT because I am an expert or authority.)
1) Do it everyday (or at least consistently). Some people blog twice a week on the same two days. Awesome! Consistency is key. People who blog regularly [...]
Attitudes that bailouts may teach us:
• complacency- “the government will take care of our messes”
• no work, all play- “we didn’t even have to struggle to ‘earn’ this”
• I deserve this- “we have worked hard in the past…help us!”
• dependency- “we could [...]
Bring your canned goods this Sunday to Awestruck to help James and Jenequa get off the bus!
Starbucks-Get off the Bus! from Awestruck on Vimeo.
I don’t know if you realize this in your own life… but the world does not revolve around us. We are not the center of the universe. Isn’t that a crazy concept that we pretend to agree with then get mad when the world doesn’t go our way? what’s up with that?
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