Church Is Messy: Acts of Leadership - Deep Community

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?