Just over a week ago, I started posting my notes from some talks of Alan Hirsch’s we attended. Today, I continue recounting these with notes from Thursday evening, which was the culmination of Forge Chicago’s week-long training. (If you’re in the Chicagoland area, I highly recommend you check them out.
- [When it comes to church], the adventure has gone out of the venture
- Communitas [def]: The type of community formed in adversity.
That ‘adversity’ can also include short-term missions, sports teams, etc.) - Communitas – a form of solidarity- forms after wins or losses as long as the team comes together.
- During storms and events like 9/11, communities turn into communitas by a shared experience – often hardship.
- Communitas is a new way of relating. People who were friends or associates become comrades. This is an entirely new dynamic.
- When communitas is established, people will have a lot of “remember when…” stories, because their relationship was borne of, or developed in adversity.
