Singleness in Community

I am currently taking a class entitled discipleship in community. I have been fascinated the last weeks about community. The many communities that I have been a part of and am still a part of.

God has created us for community. We were created in the image of a God of community. Stanley Grenz states, “ Only in fellowship with others can we show forth what God is like, for God is the community of love—the eternal relationship enjoyed by the Father and the Son, which is the Holy Spirit.” In the book I read for class last week entitled Creating Community Stanley and Willits say, “ Living life alone does not accurately reflect the One whose image we bear.”

So what do these quotes say to my many single friends and me? When people ask me what the hardest part about being single is I answer the knowing you have a constant community to come home to and love you.

As I watched the preview for the movie Valentine’s Day for the twentieth time my mind got thinking. To add to that a friend of mine pointed out the many eharmony and match.com commercials flooding the television I decided to in the next 25 or so days to build a singleness in community. Each day until Valentine’s Day I am going to write about joys of singleness, contentment, trust, doubt, and where ever else the Holy Spirit leads.

Singleness in Community………