2. Community worship and prayer, Sundays. Every Sunday, we gather with our missional community for a time of worship, Scripture and prayer together. Sometimes we gather in a worship celebration with other MCs in our network, other times we gather as a MC in a home or around a fire, but once a week, we are intentionally engaging in communal worship, Scripture reading and prayer for one another.
3. Prayer furnace, once a month. Once a month, we gather on a Friday evening to spend an extended time in worship and prayer together, allowing our faith to rise from the needs within our MC to the needs of our city. We pray kingdom-oriented prayer for our city and region, inviting anyone in who wants to join us. Sometimes we have five people, other times 50, but again, it’s about the consistency of the discipline over time.
Radical Community (IN)
1. Eating with others, at least once a week. We try to have someone over to eat with us at least once a week. Some weeks, we eat with others a lot more, but we try to make sure it happens at least once a week.
2. Intentional proximity. This is more of a long-term thing, but it is something we take seriously. One of the families from our community recently moved into our neighborhood, and we’ve found an exponential increase in our ability to really be in community with them, simply because of their geographical proximity. It’s worth prioritizing when thinking of where to live.
3. Economic sharing when possible. We had some friends move in down the street from us, and we’ve been trying to be intentional about sharing resources together. For example, we share a lawn mower. We are looking forward to more of this kind of sharing in the future.
4. Parties, once a month or so. We try to make sure there is some kind of “fun” happening once a month that we can invite others into. Sometimes it’s a bonfire, sometimes it’s movie night, sometimes it’s guys’ night out, sometimes it’s girls’ night out, etc. Informal time for people to connect.
