Community - Parable of the Sower "In Christ, we who are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others" (Romans 12.5). The bible directly describes and defines community; it is human's innate need to bond together, providing the basis of a community. In a religious sense, a community can be described as the interaction between a group of individuals. All communities need distinguishing factors that not only unite the members in thought …showed first 75 words of 630 total…

…showed last 75 words of 630 total…the people who surround them. “People are expected to fear and hate everyone but their own kind” (p 31). However, a community “It isn’t enough for [the group] to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that’s the shape [they] give to God, then someday [they] must become too weak --- too poor, too hungry, too sick to defend [themselves]. Then we’ll be wiped out” (67).