11.19.06 Livingroom conversations 1

Quesion: How can the idea of community support our faith individually? How can we challenge these thoughts?

Thoughts/responses:
*Commitment to something despite own feelings/expectations.
*The undesire to be a part of something is usually when we need to be a part.
*The opportunity to get together and talk about anything with out being looked down upon
*Leverage different thoughts, beliefs, knowledge, and wisdom to be of service to each other.
*Challenge each other.
*Isolation
*Support in making yourself vulnerable in a safe place.

Topic ideas:
*Isolation in Christianity
*Fitting into the church/or not

Ideas of things we should try to do together more:
*How can we know what we might be going through before we arrive on Sundays?
*4 week focus on specific topics
*2 week
*short film
*Splitting into 2 groups (one room could be going through a 4 week topic - while another group could be doing something different i.e. nooma, 1 week topic, etc.

What we are about is being talked about a lot...

* How do we set an organized schedule?
* 8-10 weeks out at a time... of what we are doing
* Planned forums of what we will focus
*Leaders may need to make a decision and others will respect that decision - the idea of doing two different things gives people options.
*People come because they are needed - which is a positive thing - how do we make each other feel needed as a whole - empower each other

(This is what was discussed in one of the groups on Sunday night. Please post comments and questions as we continue our conversation.)