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As many of you already know, I grew up in a small town. We were the “odd family” since we did not farm for a living, but it was a wonderful place to grow up. I knew all my neighbors, and they knew me. I also know the problems with communities. They are made up of imperfect people, and so they are also imperfect. Not everyone served as a positive role model, and not everyone behaved in the ways you’d like in a community. But we were still a community. Now I find that I prefer living in large urban areas, but even as I live in cities, I find that communities form. In each of the places I have lived, I’ve known the people around me, and they have been that same mixture of good and imperfect that I found growing up. Jesus also lived in a community of people.
