Community is powerful. It allows you to feel like you are part of a family, something singles desperately want and need. But even more importantly, it shows the world the love of Jesus. 

Here are some steps to take toward community living…

Step 1: Ask yourself if your "independent" life is worth it. 

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In this first post of a two-part series, we'll look at some ways that we singles can create our own family. Here are a few steps to get us on our way...

Step 1: Lift your eyes up to the mountains (Psalm 121:1-2) and away from your navel.

As singles, it is tempting to focus on ourselves and on our lack of love and family. We think about love, we talk about love, we read about love, we listen to love songs, we watch movies about love. No wonder we are semi-obsessed with the idea that romantic love is what will fill our insatiable desire for value and worth. 

On the one hand, God is incredibly gracious toward us in our pain. He doesn't question or downplay the difficult process we are walking through as singles.

On the other hand, he knows that wallowing in our loneliness on a regular basis is destructive to our well-being. Even more importantly, it distracts us from being our best, beautiful self in a world that desperately needs the love that we have to give.

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