S1: Introduction (Find Your People)
Find Your People (Jennie Allen)
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Nowadays, we see community as an accessory, not the essential fabric of life as our ancestors did by default. As a result, we are lonely; we are looking to plug a gaping hole. The hole is bigger than a couple people could ever fill, and so we live constantly disappointed, and we further isolate ourselves. It’s time to break that cycle—on purpose.
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S2: The Disruption of Community (Find...
We’ve replaced intrusive, real conversations with small talk and soul-bearing, connected living with book clubs—because the superficial stuff is less messy. Fig leaves are still our go-to today, covering our mess with a “doing fine here!” Our attempts to cover shame will never be sufficient—we’ll...
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S3: Proximity (Find Your People)
Community starts with bringing people into our right-now lives. Opening up to those we’re in proximity to. But a lot of us are strangers with the people we bump into day to day. We go through life barely noticing the people God has put right in our path, insisting that we’re all alone in the worl...
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S4: Transparency (Find Your People)
Transparency is the idea of living without walls. Where we can see what’s really going on with each other and admit we need people. Let's reclaim that ability in our walled-off, locked-up world, where needing others is sometimes seen as weakness. Knowing and being known, needing and being needed....
