S2: The Disruption of Community (Find Your People)
Find Your People (Jennie Allen) • 16m
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 always keep running and hiding and spinning.
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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....
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S5: Accountability (Find Your People)
We are craving accountability. Accountability is one of those lost tastes of heaven that made God’s plan for community work for the people in it. And this is not just listening to criticism from anyone and everyone or taking all unfounded theories to heart. It is building relationships and taking...
