Facing Internal Conflicts Paul's second theme is counsel about internal conflicts within the church. He gives an urgent call for unity and harmony within the church. It is a sad thing when squabbles destroy the witness of a congregation. We see it too often. We are coming out of an era in America that has been saturated with radical individualism.
People are lonely and isolated from one another.
One of my summer readings was a book by Willian Mahedy and Janet Bernardi called A Generation Alone . It describes the world of the Generation Xers, who followed the Boomers and were born between 1960 and 1980. One in four was born to a single mother. Both Mahedy and Bernardi go on to point out that one of main consequences of these characteristics is that we have a generation looking for community. This puts our building of our Community Center right on track.