Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

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I could be just like everyone else in this one way, since I couldn’t be like everyone else who had perfect families. In a world that’s both more connected and more isolating than ever before, we’re often tempted to do life alone, whether because we’re so busy or because relationships feel risky and hard. Philadelphia’s “new” community, which had always been there yet was invisible, was made into reality by Alex locating people who cared about the same things as him. We’ve replaced intrusive, real conversations with small talk and soul-bearing, connected living with book clubs—because the superficial stuff is less messy.

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At some point in the future, sooner or later, you’re going to come to a point when you want to abandon one of the friendships you’ve made.With a strong Biblical foundation, she invites us to the challenge of being awkward and vulnerable to find the people we were meant to do life with. It may be hard to feel like you are disappointing someone, but the real issue lies with them and not you if they are unable to accept you as you now are.

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Despite the cheerful looking book cover and the relentlessly hopeful message, the book does not make light of the deep hurts many of us have experienced, but it makes a convincing argument that bravely pursuing healthy community is totally worth it. Three of the most popular are the Big Five personality traits, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, and the Enneagram Type Indicator.

She talks about initiative we need to take, hard things we need to accept, and the possibility of what life could look like if we do.

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In Find Your People, you’ll discover exactly how to dive into the deep end and experience the full wonder of community. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Perks of living in one area my whole life, living in a great little town and especially being a part of incredible churches. But as jobs in cities became plentiful, people began moving to major metropolises and away from family and friends.

They may have their own ideas of who you should be, what you should value, and where your path should lead in life. She says it doesn't matter if you're not close in age or share a lot of things in common but you need to have relationships where you can be in each other's lives and do things like drop by unannounced. Then, as city housing grew increasingly unaffordable and people began moving to suburbs, their work and home lives grew even more distinct and less connected.

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Maybe if you are naturally introverted some of these things just plainly won’t work for you and that’s okay.She is a minister so there's a heavy focus on how Jesus lived, scripture, praying for people, and how the enemy doesn't want us to have friends. Without going into detail here, these models of personality aim to help you identify how you think, act, and interact with the world. Truths about the kinds of people we need, the people who need us, why this is crucial, and how ruthless we need to be to incorporate all kinds of people into everyday tasks, daily meals, boring errands, and intentional conversations. We must do our utmost to fight against him by building villages that serve as centers for spreading God’s love.