Do you want to live like Jesus within your community but do not know where to start?
Sam at Grace Ground has the best series on this subject I have ever read. It is better even than any book I have ever read on the subject.
Seriously, if you want to love your community, reach out with the love of Jesus, and reflect Christ to your neighbors, you must read this series.
Here is an excerpt from a recent post:
Work Towards a Common Goal – Many people want to help someone in need, but have grown weary of appeals for money. Most people, however, love to respond a a local or neighborhood need. When one neighbor’s wife was terminally ill, as neighbors discovered her needs, they helped with food, running errands, visits and flowers.When we visit neighborhood garage sales as the sales are winding down (usually just before lunchtime), we look for blankets, coats, sweaters and similar items that we deliver to a local homeless shelter. When we mention what we plan to do with the items, people often donate the items or sell them very reasonably.
Last winter during a severe winter storm, we spent a weekend gathering warm clothing and similar supplies and taking them to the winter homeless center for distribution to people sleeping out in the open. Neighbors donated items and even purchased new items to help our city’s homeless people weather the storm.
Read the entire series here:
What a great image! Where did you find it? It kind of looks like my neighborhood. (O.K., I’m exaggerating just a little bit.)
All ten parts of the series “Getting To Know Our Neighbors” are now up. (Nine parts preceded by an Introduction) I have a two-part true short story related to the series that I plan to slip in before the posts on planning parties. When searching for an image for the first part I found a picture that could have been taken on the very road mentioned in the story. Amazing! (The image for part 2 is a photo I took of the flowers blooming along the fence mentioned in the story.)
I have really enjoyed this series, and have learned so much from it. I am trying to implement it in my own neighborhood, and even at work. Coworkers are neighbors too.