In the past 6 months, as a means for myself and my family to heal from some painful relational experiences (some self-inflicted, some inflicted by others) have been pursuing JESUS-based community or what is referred to as “church” outside of the traditional Sunday Service, non-profit organizational and/or institutional model. This began as my wife and I committed to gather at a local coffee shop together to study and discuss GOD’s word and now we have other brothers & sisters that join us in this gathering and have become apart of our lives throughout the week. We don’t have a ton of things regularly scheduled outside of the gathering on Sunday in the coffee shop, but we do sporadically meet for communion feasts, motorcycle rides, and meals often. In all honesty learning to be a connected community outside the box of organizational bylaws, Sunday performance programs and org charts is much akin to pulling the training wheels off of a bicycle for the first time, our comfort levels ...