Caring is the glue that holds all organizations and especially churches - together. And finally, it is important to have a celebrative community . They can teach us. While everyone knows that a good celebration bring the community together they too often worry that it takes too much time, is too hard to organize and no one will come anyway. The ideal community is purposeful, open, just, disciplined, caring and celebrative.
Community is invaluable.
That is the greatest reward that exists in human life. In his call for a solution to the conundrum, Palmer calls for creating communities of discourse where people join together to talk about what it means to be together, to reflect on shared experiences and practices. This reflective conversation will work in our churches. In fact, there is a program which was introduced at General Assembly which helps congregations have those sacred conversations. I recommend it to us.