{{2013_05_07_t1.jpg}} {{2013_05_07_t2.jpg}} {{2013_05_07_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2013_05_07|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_v|| Topics Collection v ]] ======Community with the Lord ...====== Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Community is a key part of human life. No one can live without community, without the others. In fact, we are social beings, and everything we do is related to what the others do, what they think, what they feel and how they will deal with it. {{2013_05_07.jpg }} **The others ...** We are together with others on many layers of our life. We live in a family or as singles. But even the singles have mothers, fathers, sisters and other relatives somewhere around. Living as family is something we cannot stop! Everyone has has a family, even if unfortunate circumstances can make family life difficult. We have community on the level of our partnership. When we find a husband or wife, we enter an important and usually deep type of relationship, which is influencing our daily life as well as the big decisions which we have to do. The community of the partnership is a community which we should look into in much more detail! We have community on our work level. There are colleagues on the same level which we are working. There is support staff, there are employees, students, customers. There are our superiors, the line managers or bosses, which have their particular responsibility. And in all of this, community can grow where we find friends and get into closer contact with others around us. {{ 2013_05_07_2.jpg}} **Community with the Lord ...** ** The New Testament invitation is about community with the Lord, with the God of heaven and earth. In a purely worldly environment, we ofen do not realize his presence. We are lost! But when we become aware that God is there, then our life gains a dimension which ultimately can influence all other parts of our life as well. This influence will come when we find to community with the Lord! Often, people have a quite reduced idea about faith. They think that faith is the believe in particular doctrines. They think that you believe when you agree with teaching of some church. But that is not the New Testament idea of faith. In the New Testament, faith is community. It is a transformation, which comes through the holy spirit when he enters our life. The holy spirit is thought to come and take a place in our heart and our mind. When you want to know about faith, it is an important step to realize that faith is not something you could investigate when you stay neutral. You will only come to strange conclusions, when you do not enter faith yourself. Faith is about trusting the Lord with your life - and only when you go steps of trust, you will be able to understand what it is all about! (Roland Potthast) [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_v|... more texts]]