“Women experience the basic fear of aloneness as the terror of invisibility: unseen and unwanted. The call to invite others to move toward them arouses their fear. The question burns quietly within them: Do I have beauty that another would desire?
“Men, created and called to move into relationship with others, feel the fear of aloneness differently. In their aloneness, men fear weightlessness. Do I have what it takes to move into community, into soul-to-soul connection? To risk that my moving will have no visible impact? To move toward others who might not value my movement?”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Fully Alive, Pages 107-108
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“An unfeminine woman and an unmasculine man will always live at a distance from each other and from their friends. They will never connect. Pleasant times and passionate feelings might mimic connection, but real connection never happens, either in marriage or friendships.
“But when a woman is feminine and a man is masculine, community happens. People meet–on the bridge. And God is revealed.”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Fully Alive, Page 89
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“Before we wonder whether we are feminine women or masculine men, before we interpret the submission and silence passages, and before we decide whether we are in the traditional or the egalitarian camp, we should study God’s choice of words when He refers to His creation of us as male and female persons. Perhaps that study will provide further leads to understand how He has designed women and men to relate, and for what purpose. Words do have meaning, especially biblical words.”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Fully Alive, Page 33
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“If we leave these stereotypes behind, then another question needs to be asked: Do Christians have any biblical basis that we can draw from to understand what it really means for males and females to become masculine men and feminine women? Because we bear God’s image, can men and women reveal something uniquely wonderful about God by the way we relate? Is that question even important?”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Fully Alive
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“We feel safe with folks who are: (1) broken yet strong, (2) vulnerable with hope, and (3) respectfully curious. They worship God and, because of what they know about Him, they celebrate us. We feel more solid in their presence.”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Becoming a True Spiritual Community, Page 171
Questions for Reflection:
Can you think of anyone in your life that fits these characteristics?
What does your relationship with them look like?
Which of the three things do you need the most work on so that people can feel safer around you?
“The community of God has no higher calling than to seize the opportunity to experience God. Our fiercest battles are fought when we seek with all our heart to trust God so fully that we see every misfortune as something he permits and wants to use, to know him so richly that we turn to no one and nothing else to experience what our souls long to enjoy, to love him so completely and with such consuming passion that we hate anything that comes between us and eagerly give it up.”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Connecting, Page 150
Questions for Reflection:
How do you experience God?
What is your consuming passion?
“Spiritual community first celebrates God, and people secondarily as marvelous opportunities to display God’s grace. It envisions how the Spirit could further reveal the character of Christ through us. It excitedly discerns evidence of the Spirit at work and gently but relentlessly exposes flesh-driven maneuvering. It pours the actual life of Christ into souls, for without that life souls are utterly dead and devoid of value.”
Dr. Larry Crabb, Becoming a True Spiritual Community, Page 135
Questions for Reflection:
Are you surrounded by this kind of community?
How has it exposed your “flesh-driven maneuvering”?
How have you grown/changed since that community has been a part of your life?
