The Company We Keep Essay
Growing up going to Church gave me a good outline for what love is supposed to look like. This outline is continuously being shaped and filled in as I begin to understand the biblical meaning of love. Recently, have I noticed how difficult a concept love is to grasp. To begin a discussion on love first requires acknowledging that God is the creator of Love. God’s love is continuously on display throughout scripture and history. Secondly, God is love God and love has a purpose in our lives. Holmes, the author of, The Company We Keep discusses the purpose of love and calls us to knowingly commit ourselves to God’s purpose for love within our community. The Company We Keep, states love serves as way to witness to the community. Our motivation
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As a result it becomes important to learn to love people properly. Often times misunderstandings between people develop as a result of not understanding another person’s way of thinking. Interestingly, the “Community that is Christian” talks about the different personality types and ways of thinking. These different personality types, create a strain on our relationships even within the body of believers. For example, when it comes to information gathering I am completely a intuitor, I see meaning in facts. However, I really do not understand sensors, and their way of thinking strikes me as extremely odd. In fact, I rarely consider or try I tried to relate to their personality. I believe relationships with some of my friends become strained because I fail to consider their thought process. Something that hit me deeply is, “It’s easy to believe our own information gathering is right and to distrust other people’s way of processing data” (Gorman 155). This process of building relationships starts by admitting my way is equal to everyone else.In our relationships with others, it is important to consider our differences, and realize these differences are what make people unique and important. These differences are not meant to strain our relationships, but rather exists to see the character of God in his people. No group is better than the other, because there is not supposed to be greater, we are always different and
As a result it becomes important to learn to love people properly. Often times misunderstandings between people develop as a result of not understanding another person’s way of thinking. Interestingly, the “Community that is Christian” talks about the different personality types and ways of thinking. These different personality types, create a strain on our relationships even within the body of believers. For example, when it comes to information gathering I am completely a intuitor, I see meaning in facts. However, I really do not understand sensors, and their way of thinking strikes me as extremely odd. In fact, I rarely consider or try I tried to relate to their personality. I believe relationships with some of my friends become strained because I fail to consider their thought process. Something that hit me deeply is, “It’s easy to believe our own information gathering is right and to distrust other people’s way of processing data” (Gorman 155). This process of building relationships starts by admitting my way is equal to everyone else.In our relationships with others, it is important to consider our differences, and realize these differences are what make people unique and important. These differences are not meant to strain our relationships, but rather exists to see the character of God in his people. No group is better than the other, because there is not supposed to be greater, we are always different and