The title of this blog comes from a line in a Christine Dente song entitled, "Gotta Go Through". It's a song about the pain of living in community. It's not a song that suggests that it's better NOT to live in community - but instead that community life forces to "go through" things that lead us into another place. A better place.
America is a land that prizes individualism. We're also a consumer driven culture. Individualism and consumerism make community life difficult, whether the community in question is a family or a church. When the going gets tough - when life together gets painful, it seems easier to get up and run.
The Trinity is a model of community, existing together in a circle dance of love and mutuality. The relationship in the Godhead is a picture of what life together is meant to be like for us: love, appreciation, support, and collaboration.
God designed us to live in community. Even though our relationships are fraught with pain and difficulty, it is in relationship that we grow and develop into fully actualized people. We do indeed gotta go through. Hang in there. It's worth it.
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