Two years ago I moved back to America for a season and have lived in my current community for a year and a half. During this time I have made a grand total of zero friends. I don't know anyone's story and no one knows mine. Did I mention I am really bad at community?
Sometimes when I am being extremely mature and productive (*note sarcasm*) I argue with the word of God. The past couple of years it has been about the body of Christ, specifically 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. When I am struggling finding or fitting into community I always shoot back with "Well the body doesn't need the appendix. It serves no purpose. It is not needed." This past Friday night I volunteered for an event at church and just barely made it through without dissolving into a puddle of tears on the floor. That night and into the next day I gave God my usual argument when he gave me an epiphany.
The body can survive without the appendix.
BUT
The appendix can NOT survive without the body.
The body of Christ will adjust if I am not there. It can keep moving, but I will die. I am not meant to live alone. No one is. Even people who do not believe in God know this. Just look at the recent rise of Sunday Assemblies (church without God). We need one another. Whether I like it or not I need other people. I can keep trying to do it all myself, but eventually I will fail. For without the body there is no life.
"And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near."
Hebrews 10:24-25
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