If you feel included while others are excluded, you don't have true community.
If you hang out with the same people, and never venture out to meet new ones, you don't have community.
If you haven't met an immediate need in among the members of your congregation, you don't have community.
If you are more concerned with the hobbies and life circumstances that bond you as opposed to your love for Christ, you don't have community.
If your church has cliques, it doesn't have community.
If you and the others in your fellowship would give your lives for a saving knowledge of Christ, then there is community.
If you can't NOT be among other believers, you have experienced true community.
If you can't figure out who among the people you having out with the most loves God more, then you have community.
"They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved" ( Acts 2:42-47).
This is true community.
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