I want to share a similar experience to Erin's. This week I've been in Nashville for job training. It has been a week of many "get to know you" conversations. During the course of these converstations, people find out that my husband and I just bought a house with another family. I'm suprised time and again how many people find the idea compelling. I had one lady share with me how she lived with her daughter's family for an extended amount of time - and now dearly misses the community - even though she now lives next door to her daughter.
I think she is right -- there is just something special about living under one roof. You don't have to plan in bumping into loved ones - it is a natural part of your day. You don't have to look for ways to serve others - opprotunities just naturally present themselves. You don't have to turn the TV on to find some comic relief - there are plenty of smiles to share with housemates. You don't have to search for people who care enough to spur you on to holiness - they sit around your dinner table!
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Christianity entered history as a new social order, or rather a new social dimension. From the very beginning Christianity was not primarily a "doctrine," but exactly a "community." There was not only a "Message" to be proclaimed and delivered, and "Good News" to be declared. There was precisely a New Community, distinct and peculiar, in the process of growth recruited. Indeed, "fellowship" was the basic category of Christian existence.
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We are two families endeavoring to live out God's plan for simple community among believers. We are learning; we are not experts at this! We share one home, and we open up 2 of our 5 bedrooms to international students and other friends and family who need temporary housing. We eat many meals together weekly. We pray together, laugh together, discuss spiritual issues together, and learn from each other.
One family consists of a couple with 3 young boys, and the other family consists of a married couple (and a dog and cat). The two husbands of the house are full time seminary students, one wife works full time and the other stays at home with her 3 children and works from home part-time.
This endeavor came about both as a practical response to our financial needs as families, and as the result of a desire to live out our Christian lives in a way that critically questions the individualism that is common in society.
This blog is an honest look at thoughts and reactions to this journey. It is not always meant to be a shining example of what is right. It is merely two families sharing our adventure with anyone who wants to watch it unfold.
One family consists of a couple with 3 young boys, and the other family consists of a married couple (and a dog and cat). The two husbands of the house are full time seminary students, one wife works full time and the other stays at home with her 3 children and works from home part-time.
This endeavor came about both as a practical response to our financial needs as families, and as the result of a desire to live out our Christian lives in a way that critically questions the individualism that is common in society.
This blog is an honest look at thoughts and reactions to this journey. It is not always meant to be a shining example of what is right. It is merely two families sharing our adventure with anyone who wants to watch it unfold.
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