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Drawing Large Circles
We are “community” here at Metropolitan UMC. M. Scott Peck wrote, “community is a state of being together in which people, instead of hiding behind their defenses, learn to lower them, in which instead of attempting to obliterate their differences, people not only learn to accept them but rejoice in them.”
Community is a "safe place."
A community is a safe place that includes members who share values, a common orientation, a willingness to move forward by consensus and that is inclusive, realistic, healing and contemplative, and within it is found a spirit of peace.
A community is a safe place that includes members who share values, a common orientation, a willingness to move forward by consensus and that is inclusive, realistic, healing and contemplative, and within it is found a spirit of peace.
Christian community.
Christian community acknowledges that the community is bound together by God rather than the efforts of its members alone and that at the center of everything the community is and does is Jesus Christ.
Christian community acknowledges that the community is bound together by God rather than the efforts of its members alone and that at the center of everything the community is and does is Jesus Christ.
Christian community is diverse.
Diversity, such as you will find at Metropolitan, is a hallmark of Christian community. Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche community, wrote, “God seems pleased to call together in Christian communities people who, humanly speaking, are very different, who come from very different cultures, classes and countries. The most beautiful communities are created from just this diversity of people and temperaments.”
Drawing our circles large.
Mother Teresa was once asked by an interviewer: “What's the biggest problem in the world today?” Without hesitating she replied, “The biggest problem in the world today is that we draw the circle of our family too small. We need to draw it larger every day.” To follow Christ is to draw a circle so big that it includes the stranger as family and offers God's radical hospitality to the world.
We draw our circles LARGE here at Metropolitan UMC and you are included!
Join us and, perhaps for the first time, experience community.
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