Community - Fellowship of believers

Community is the place where we enter into the presence of each other and the Lord who called us there, as fully and totally as we do in the engagements with ourselves and God. It is a place that calls me to abandon myself to you, for in doing so I discover myself.  It is a place where I am available to you as I have learned to be with God and, because of my availability to you, I learn to be available to God. It is a place where I am totally present  to you, aware of your and listening to you with the totality of my being. It is a coming together because Christ has called us to be committed to him and to each other through his gift of koinonia.  William Clemmons, Discovering the Depth.