\u201c\u201d\u00a6\u2019I am a nut about community, and what is missing in the Church for me is any realness between people. So many communities want pseudo-community and are not willing to do the work to have real community. They don\u2019t want authenticity and reality. They want to hear a sermon that is going to make them feel better, but they don\u2019t want to get real with each other and hear each other\u2019s pain and talk about that kind of this. They don\u2019t want to talk about the real stuff of life. That is very sad. Jesus said, \u201d\u02dcI have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly.\u2019 Many churches I go to are not very [alive] places. You get the feeling that, beneath the smile and the singing and the clapping, there is no real life underneath.\u2019 \u201d\u00a6\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n