About four or five years ago, we asked some friends if they'd be interested in gathering regularly. We decided that if we did this, we'd commit to one thing: Love one another. And an important aspect of that love would be help one another love God more.
We determined to get together weekly for a meal, and see what happens. Over the past five years, we prayed together, studied the Bible, shared heartache, confessed sins. In our own way, we worshipped God. Carried one another's burdens. Largely, we did what we set out to do, we loved one another.
The group including children grew to about twenty. We are sensing that it has run its course. And that God is leading us into new things. But maybe it, the essence of it does not end, like a good diaspora of a healthy family does not mark the end of that family.
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