una ciudad alterna

Man, I'm a bloggin' beast this week!

Again, I really couldn't wait to write about this topic because it pertains to something near and dear to my heart: Covenant College (No, I'm not sucking up because I'm an RA).

Last night I had my amazing small group meeting. After this weeks meeting I'm pretty convince that Tim Keller has read my soul. The title of this week's session was "An Alternate City" and was based on Acts 2:42-47:

"And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. ⁴³And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. ⁴⁴And all who believed were together and had all things in common. ⁴⁵And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. ⁴⁶And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, ⁴⁷praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.\


We were asked to describe how this Christian community had fellowship together. One of the girls in the group said that they lived close together, they ate together, they worshiped together, probably opened their houses literally (had the door open). I was imagining this community in my head and here was the image. A long narrow hall way with rooms side by side, doors partially or fully opened, girls wandering from room to room, someone yelling "Nom Nom!" and everyone filing down to dinner.

That's right, I'm pretty sure that scripture passage is a fairly accurate description of my experience of hall life at Covenant. I smiled at the thought of this, but I also wanted to cry because of how much I've missed it.

We continued our conversation. "Is it possible to have Christian fellowship everyday? why or why not?" The group kind of scoffed at this question, most of the girls said no. one of the girls asked, "has anyone had constant Christian fellowship everyday?"
yep.
I have.
For the past 3 academic years.
I realized how blessed I was to almost effortlessly accomplish Christian fellowship daily at Covenant.

So, Thank you Covenant, for giving me a vivid example of una ciudad alterna. I pray that I'll have the intentionality to continue that kind of fellowship in whatever community I live in post graduation.