Community Crisis
So one of the requisites of being in Student Leadership at Tyndale (Student Council President – no big deal) is a weekly hourly session that involves talking about important aspects of being in Christian leadership: spiritual discipline, mentoring, community, and discipleship. We’ve been talking about community for the last month and it is starting to really bother me. The reason is because Canada sucks.
Canada sucks because we live in a culture mired in individualism.
Canada sucks because we are trained from an insanely young age to ignore and hide our neediness.
Canada sucks because our Christianity generally finds itself stuck to ideals and not people.
Canada sucks because our leaders are put on pedestals far above where any mortal should be.
I think I’ve found where the majority of my church problem reaches its breaking point.
WK
This entry was written by , posted on February 3, 2009 at 7:30 pm, filed under Christianity, Church and tagged Church, Community, crisis, individualism. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Busy busy busy
Sorry for the lack of updates last week, we had a banquet at school.
My hard-working, wonderful team
We had a great time – a wonderful end to 16+ hours (and that was just me!). Christine enjoyed herself too, since she got to wear one awesome dress, that I also spent 11+ shopping/buying/tailoring/picking up for. All worth it.
Beautiful Wife Alert!
I’ll get back to posting something of more substance soon, until then:
Christianity is based on community and relationship. You can’t do it alone – in fact there’s little you can do on your own at all, let alone well. Value your friends, family, bosses, workers, teammates – Christian or not – they all help shape you. I wouldn’t have survived this semester without all the people pictured above.
WK
This entry was written by , posted on December 1, 2008 at 10:06 am, filed under Life and tagged Community, Life, Student Council, Tyndale University College. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.