Community Is Built at Floor Worship!
Community.
It’s a desire we all have, found deep within the human heart: to have a group of people who have your back, a circle of friends who can support, encourage, celebrate, and comfort you. Building community takes vulnerability and sacrifice. On the other side of intentional work, community provides accountability and close friendships. Community has been the theme of Forester Village (FV) Floor Worship this fall semester, and I wanted to share two verses with the rest of campus that FV has been studying (shoutout to our amazing Sojourners Alyssia, Makailah, Luke, and Isaac!).
1. Romans 12:4-5
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
With this verse, our Sojourners had us focus on the imagery of the human body: it has so many different parts! According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, there are at least six different muscles holding your eye in place, and there are five layers in the eye that allow you to see. If one of those layers is not functioning correctly in this small part of the body, the whole person is out of sorts because they cannot see, and our faith community is the same! At HU, we need each individual person with their unique gifts and talents for our campus and community to thrive. We need you and the gifts God has given you to be complete as the Forester Family.
2. Ephesians 2:10
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Another important point that our Sojourners made was that to strengthen your community, it is vital for you to recognize your worth in Jesus. This worth and self-confidence is not meant to be selfish or arrogant; instead, knowing that you are fearfully and wonderfully made can give you a sense of self-assurance in your purpose in life. Our Sojourners had a reflective prayer exercise for us to connect with God personally and learn more about the areas in our life where we need God’s help to fully pursue our purpose. With several different prayer cards, like “Worry,” “Apathy,” and “Complacency,” we were asked to take a few cards and pray over them so that God would reveal any areas of our lives that weren’t fully in tune with the masterpiece He made each of us to be.
In FV, we want to sustain a community that encourages confidence, appreciates each person involved, and always points back to the goodness of God. Join us at our next all-hall event to be brought into the community!
