Church Is Messy: Acts of Leadership - Deep Community
Update: 2025-10-08
Description
Today Rick and Svea talk about the challenges to developing authentic deep community and provide some ideas for developing this community.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:48 This week's focus is on community and the requirement for leadership decisions to shepherd each other.
- 02:15 We live in a culture that is driven by individualism and isolation.
- 05:11 Authentic, biblical Christian community isn't easy; it requires bravery, intentional vulnerability, messiness, awkwardness, and sometimes pain.
- 09:01 A framework for community: intimates, kin, village, tribe.
- 11:53 Church gatherings at Autumn Ridge are a gathering of a tribe. Community can be experienced and enjoyed, but it is not developed in the tribe. It's developed in the up-close relationships.
- 13:06 Challenges to developing deep community.
- 18:37 The fear of rejection.
- 21:23 Ideas for developing community.
- 23:45 How fast can this happen? Is there a microwave setting for developing community?
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