We are Church who:
- worship together
- pray together
- laugh together
- cry together
- learn together
- make decisions together
- have cups of tea together
- walk together
- play together
- discuss the Bible together
- look after our buildings together
- do the garden together
- clean the halls together
- care for and look after one another together
- serve the community together
- have conversations about all sorts of things together
- support one another when life is hard
- celebrate together
- travel to Cambodia together
So often, people see Church as 'what I can get' and it is an individual thing; if Church doesn't satisfy me I either stop coming or move on to a new one that will give me what I want. Yes, it is true that each one of us has our own individual relationship with God for which we alone are responsible; but the most important word in that list is 'together'. We are brought together by Christ and by the faith we share, and we then have to give that bond some flesh and bones in the way that we live and behave. Sadly Christians also have a name for falling out together and fighting and being in conflict together.
How do we get this right? What do we have to do to nurture this life together? Surely it is better together, even if more difficult. How do we make it work?
